Amazon is reducing the cost of its online data storage service for data volumes greater than 50 Tbytes, Amazon said Thursday. The company said the rapid growth of the Amazon Simple Storage Service is resulting in volume efficiencies it can pass along to customers.
Amazon's Web services subsidiary, which operates Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3, said it currently stores more than 29 billion objects, up from 22 billion at the end of this year's second quarter, and is processing 70,000 requests per second for storage space.
Amazon currently charges 15 cents per Gbyte, per month of storage space used. That price will hold for the first 50 Tbytes of data storage, but starting Nov. 1 Amazon will offer a tiered pricing structure that lowers the price for larger volumes of stored data. For storage between 50 and 100 Tbytes, Amazon will drop the price to 14 cents per Gbyte, per month, 13 cents for 100 to 500 Tbytes and 12 cents for more than 500 Tbytes.
Amazon also charges for data transfers, and six months ago announced a reduction in those costs. Amazon charges 10 cents per Gbyte for transferring data into Amazon S3 while prices for transferring data out start at 17 cents per Gbyte for the first 10 Tbytes per month and drop for larger data volumes.
Amazon S3 customers include National Geographic and e-mail archiving company Sonian. Last month Oracle announced Oracle Secure Backup Cloud is using Amazon S3 as a backup destination.
|
New Storage Devices Come To Light At CES 2012, Storage Visions While the buzz in Las Vegas this week was focused on tablets, TVs, and smart mobile devices, there was plenty to see at the CES and Storage Visions conferences for anyone looking for the latest storage innovations. |
|
12 New Flash Memory, SSD Devices Provide Diversity Diversity was the watchword in the second half of 2011 as vendors introduced a wide range of SSDs and Flash memory devices to increase the storage performance of mission-critical applications. |
|
10 Storage Predictions For 2012 The storage industry will never be the same after 2012 as data capacity growth decelerates, cloud storage accelerates, and mobile devices force storage admins to rework their playbooks. |
 More
Slide Shows |
