What is Amazon S3?
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a web-service, provided by Amazon.com, that enables anyone to store and share large amounts of data online. This is a free to join, pay-as-you-go service with no minimum fees that makes it very attractive to small businesses and individuals who need to host their videos online. All stored data can be made available via the web-browser, just like any web site on the Internet. Prices depend on location of your data and currently set to the following: United States Datacenter Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.10 per GB – all data transfer in $0.18 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out $0.16 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out $0.13 per GB – data transfer out / month over 50 TB Requests $0.01 per 1,000 upload or list requests $0.01 per 10,000 download and all other requests Europe Datacenter Storage $0.18 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.10 per GB – all data transfer in $0.18 per GB – first 10 T
