Comments on: TalkCrunch: Podcast with Amazon S3 Grid Storage Team

By: مركز التحميل

مركز التحميل — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:43:30 +0000

I suppose it could be used as a small companies’ Akamei — for example a company wants to put out a largish video and doesn’t have the bandwidth to host it themselves. With the ability to make a bittorrent they could lower the costs of distributing it.
I do not feel optimistic to it.

By: mortgage refinancing

mortgage refinancing — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:41:10 +0000

mortgage refinancing…

ok…

By: Adultvideo

Adultvideo — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:43:40 +0000

Amazon offers API overhead when all that Omnidrive needs is a raw block device or filesystem.
I suppose it could be used as a small companies’ Akamei — for example a company wants to put out a largish video and doesn’t have the bandwidth to host it themselves. With the ability to make a bittorrent they could lower the costs of distributing it.
I do not feel optimistic to it.

By: townx

townx — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:05:26 +0000

S3 + Rails…

Well, I spent most of today obsessively coding a simple Rails front-end to S3 called s33r (pronounced “seer”). It’s very incomplete, but mostly intended as a proof of concept. It allows you to perform the following operations:

Create and delete …

By: Ontiveros @ Textdriven » Blog Archive » Omnidrive better damn hurry…

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:07:11 +0000

[...] Speaking of time, let’s see how Nik Cubrilovic is spending his: Blogging while buddy Michael was on vacation and podcasting with, you guessed it, Michael at Techcrunch. [...]

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:24:59 +0000

It’s too expensive, specially when you have to pay for both upload and downloads!!! Most hosting providers only charge you for downloads. With Amazon, you have to pay both ways. So the effective cost of adding 1TB of data for one month and then retreiving it is $150 + $200 + $200 = $550 which isn’t exactly cheap.

By: BlogReader

BlogReader — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:32:31 +0000

I’m still not sure of Amazon’s target market for this. The pricing is far too high for companies like Omnidrive to make money off of it.

Amazon could try and offer a SQL API for the file storage so that a company could have a backup of their data (I say backup as the roundtripping involved would be pretty slow for real time use).

Amazon does have their brand name and ability to execute which allows them to charge more for their service. I doubt if the Omnidrives of the world can scale like Amazon does.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:23:40 +0000

Initially I was excited about Amazon’s plans, and the price looked fantastic, especially the storage cost. I was even thinking the possibility of offering a 100 GB storage for $19.95/month.
But looking closer I discovered that the bandwidth cost is really not that great. The price of 20 cents per gig sounds enticing but don’t forget that there are three charges associated with bandwidth:

1/ inbound traffic to my server
2/ outbound traffic from my server
3/ inbound traffic to S3
[this is when traffic is going from customer to S3]

even if all three segments cost $.2/GB, we are looking at a total cost of $.6/GB. currently most hosting companies charge about $.5/GB for bandwidth. If someone can figure a way to send traffic directly to S3, then there might be a case.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:39:48 +0000

I think S3 is a great way for a startup to host media and have reasonable bandwidth costs. At $.20/GB xfer, that rings in much lower than most dedicated hosts.

It’s a good way to scale up until a company has enough clout to negotiate better bandwidth costs.

By: Migs

Migs — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:34:50 +0000

I don’t think you could use S3 for a customer-facing hosted storage.

Costs aside:

1. Any data to/from the customer will make two round trips. Customer to Omnidrive (and its peers), Omnidrive to S3. Perhaps it would work as an archival-type nearline storage, or backup.

2. Amazon offers API overhead when all that Omnidrive needs is a raw block device or filesystem.

(I haven’t listened to the podcast yet, no speakers on this PC I’m borrowing…)