[SATLUG] Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3)...

[Justizin]

On 11/4/06, K. Spoon <kell at spoonix.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:09:18PM -0600, John Pappas wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I have been playing with AWS S3 lately.  Has anyone else?  What other
> > online storage services are you all using, if any?
> >
> > For those of you who may not know of this service, it is a pay to use
> > online storage service.  Current rates are $0.17/GB/Month and $0.20/GB
> > transferred.
> >
> > I love it.
>
> Wow.  Awesome fscking find, John.
>
> I've been exploring all of the stuff in labs.google.com for the past
> couple of months... looks like it's time to check out what Amazon's got
> hiding in plain sight.  :)  With any luck, there'll be a solution to my
> e-commerce conundrum..
>
> ObTopic: The method I've been using has been simply using cheap
> dedicated servers that package decent sized disks and lots of bandwidth.
> For about $95/month you can get a celeron server with a 120GB drive and
> at least 1TB of transfer which works out to about $0.79/month with the
> option to move the data 10 times before you hit the limit.  If you're willing
> to take the capex hit up front, I've found colo for a 1U server with a fixed
> 1Mb transfer rate is about $70-$90/month.

If you use Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud, which is basically a
monstrous Xen cluster, you pay about $70-80/mo for cpu time if you peg
a cpu every moment of a month.  Bandwidth between EC2 and S3 is free,
and transfer from EC2 is 5G/USD$1.

Also don't forget that you can provision a thousand copies of your
image within minutes this way, and leave them all running without
paying a dime if they aren't actually using cpu time, which, well I'm
not sure if an idle VPS actually uses zero cpu time - I expect it cost
a couple bucks/mo for an idle VPS to sit around.

> Downsides:
> * more root passwords to manage (ugh), more syslogs to watch, and more machines
>   to update when a vuln is found
> * cost is all up-front instead of pay-as-you-go
>
> Upsides:
> * you can use whatever transfer method you want  :)
> * you control who can see the data
>
> Also, on the matter of dealing with DAV, I found cadaver to be useful in
> dealing with WebDAV shares.  Gives you kind of an ftp-ish interface to
> navigating the folders.  I haven't jacked around with the FUSE stuff,
> but my impression is that it's the way to go (even if it feels hackish).

I'm trying to figure out how to jam S3 support into my apps as a ZODB
storage, but I think I'm eventually going to swap this whole layer out
for FUSE - some friends are doing really interesting stuff with
filesystem metadata services, versioning, etc..

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