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Amazon Lowers Cost? Nice!

May 2nd, 2008 by Greg Harris

Well this one works out well for us. Amazon has lowered the cost of data transferred out of their servers, and have kept all transfer between their services as free.

We are generating a tremendous volume of log files from all the data we are tracking. The nice thing is that we do ALL the processing within the Amazon cloud until the last possible moment when we download it to our Windows reporting servers. We then compress it and store on Amazon S3. By the time we download it, the data is 1/5th the size of the original. Cha Ching! Hey every penny counts… Now if we could just get them to support Windows servers and we’d never have to leave the cloud.

Thanks Amazon!!