Amazon S3 real world cost savings
37Signals spent $2,004.12 on S3 last month. That’s for 8.8TB of data stored, 1.5TB uploaded, 2.9TB downloaded, and 12M requests. DHH pipes up on the comments about how that compares to competitor quotes:
It’s nothing in comparison to what it would cost us to do this ourselves. I think the last quote we got on a setup that could handle this like we wanted to was $10-15K. And then you have more management overhead too.
Add in EC2’s new features, and a little Rightscale magic on top, and you suddenly have the most scalable, reliable, and cost effective hosting service in the world.
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