On: Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud st...

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Another thing that they aren't taking into account over S3 is power costs, physical datacenter rent costs, and bandwith hookup. Still its probably a lot cheaper but important to note that they are comparing apples and apple cider.

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On their graph it says they subtracted data center costs from the price of S3.

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what does s3 charge for transfer? $0.10 per gigabyte? I bet that covers much of the data center costs.