In celebration of S3’s 3rd anniversary Amazon has announced the reduction of the transfer-in costs for data from $0.10/GB to $0.03GB for April – May 2009. Now is the time to transfer all the home videos and music that isn’t backed up else where.
Today Amazon anounced new tiered pricing for the S3 service.
For the United States:
It is good to see that Amazon released a pretty detailed statement detailing the events of the S3 outage on 7/20. Some people have been complaining about the stability of the environment, but I think it has been overall really good. When there are problems they are fixed extremely quickly and if there was going to be any delays they kept everybody up to date. I think the Service Health Dashboard is great information tool. I may not be happy when there is a problem, but atleast I don’t feel like I am in the dark like I have in the past with some other hosts/service providors.