Tech Stuff

Today Amazon anounced new tiered pricing for the S3 service.

For the United States: 

Storage — Current Pricing (thru October 31st)

• $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used

Storage — New Pricing (effective November 1st)

• $0.150 per GB – first 50 TB / month of storage used
• $0.140 per GB – next 50 TB / month of storage used
• $0.130 per GB – next 400 TB /month of storage used
• $0.120 per GB – storage used / month over 500 TB

Amazon explains the S3 outage that occurred Friday morning. They got it corrected rather quickly, but with so many start ups using it as part of their hosting environment there are surely more gray hair out there now. Luckily I only use it for backups right now so not a big deal for me. One of the good things coming out of this is that they say they are working on a service health dashboard and expect to release it shortly.