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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage through a simple web services interface. Amazon launched S3, its first publicly-available web service, in the United States in March 2006 and in Europe in November 2007.

Amazon S3
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Release date March, 2006
Brand Amazon
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United States

Storage: $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used

Data Transfer:

  • $0.100 per GB - all data transfer in
  • $0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
  • $0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
  • $0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out
  • $0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB

Requests:

  • $0.01 per 1,000 PUT, POST, or LIST requests
  • $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*

* No charge for delete requests

Europe

Storage: $0.18 per GB-Month of storage used

Data Transfer:

  • $0.100 per GB - all data transfer in
  • $0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
  • $0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
  • $0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out
  • $0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB

Requests

  • $0.012 per 1,000 PUT, POST, or LIST requests
  • $0.012 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*

* No charge for delete requests

 

Storage and bandwidth size includes all file overhead.

 

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Microsoft Windows Azure

Microsoft Windows Azure

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Pros
  • competing against Amazon leads to better costs for end users
  • allows businesses to focus on their online services and content without worrying about hardware or software
  • easy way to cut overhead costs, and scale without need for much notice
Cons
  • end user cost will not be significantly lower, control will be restricted
  • vapourwear - most exciting features are those most likely to be stripped by the end product
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