A simplified S3 pricing page

http://s3pricing.herokuapp.com/

by kevindavis • 14 years ago

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s3pricing.herokuapp.com

kevindavis5• 14 years ago

let me know if folks have any problems / would like any additional features

brugidou• 14 years ago

Unfortunately i'm unable to use it on mobile :-(

Sujan• 14 years ago

Feedback to (imho) improve: 1. Mirror the top (prices) and bottom (description) 2. Add + sign between columns, = before last

malvim• 14 years ago

Love the idea and implementation, thanks a lot for this!

Though more granularity, as it has been said, would be nice, this is good enough for me and lots of people as it is right now.

What I REALLY would like to see (and I know this is not really a feature request for this, but just an idea I'm throwing out there) is this made for other Amazon AWS services as well.

Common scenarios, like "I would like to run a wordpress site on an EC2 instance serving a couple thousand hits per month", or "I'd like to store a 1 TB backup of my personal computer on Glacier and retrieve it when my computer crashes (say in 1 year)".

The point is, like you said yourself, if you're spending a lot of money, you shouldn't trust anyone else, but having these "ballpark figures" would be really useful for people that are considering these services.

mfringel• 14 years ago

To that point, it's hard to get a handle on how many GET, LIST, POST, etc. operations one would routinely do in the course of a blog or something else. While that can get pretty complex (especially if you end up throwing varnish in to minimize calls to your datastore), a calculator including various rules of thumb would be great.

thenomad• 14 years ago

I was looking at this for video hosting costs - any chance the bandwidth slider could go a bit (well, a lot) higher?

B-Con• 14 years ago

It's not granular enough for small scale/personal use. If someone were considering using S3 for a small project, or even just personal backup, this wouldn't really help them.

The sliders should offer some way to get more granularity. Maybe scale the sliders the higher they go, or have a separate option to select the scale you want to work on.

wallawe• 14 years ago

I was thinking the same thing. I've just started using S3 on a rails project for learning purposes and (I think) it's free for the amount of data I'm using.

edit: props on the good work though!

a-priori• 14 years ago

The sliders should be on a log scale to accommodate both small and large users.

kevindavis5• 14 years ago

Good point - I thought about this a bit and figured I could take one of a couple of approaches 1) log scale (probably a bit confusing / harder to implement) 2) a switch between personal and business (could do similar switches for other settings like region

thoughts?

joshstrange• 14 years ago

How about if you could double click on the slider to enter your own exact value. Also maybe throw in a checkbox for reduced redundancy?

kmfrk• 14 years ago

Yeah. Especially for someone who hosts a static blog.

roywalker• 14 years ago

I think that adding some popular/pre-defined packages (that could change the slider's values) would help "regular" users.

About the slider, the horizontal lines are useless without references.

kalid2• 14 years ago

Shameless plug, but I have a pet project to help with these types of calculations. I made a quick calc here:

http://instacalc.com/4471

You can type in any amounts you need. OP has a great visualization though!

hobonumber1• 14 years ago

This is great!

neerajdotname2• 14 years ago

Can you open source the code? I can use it.

kevindavis5• 14 years ago

https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing

note, it was largely adapted from the pricing page on database.com

niggler• 14 years ago

This was a wholesale scrape:

https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing/blob/master/public/...

Why do you have the database.com logo in your repo?

rco8786• 14 years ago

Azure has had this pricing scale for a long time.

diego• 14 years ago

Nice. Feature request: please make the scale logarithmic (at least as an option).

m-i4• 14 years ago

Wow! S3 is really expensive.

toomuchtodo• 14 years ago

Expensive is relative. 12 cents/GB/month for %99.999999999 reliability is cheap in my opinion.

richardkeller• 14 years ago

Compared to what? I'm very curious to find out alternatives that are cheaper than Amazon.

m-i4• 14 years ago

Compared to Hetzner. Not a cloud provider, but a root server provider. It's also more expensive than Strato - also a root server provider. Of course, not with the same availability, but for most startups it's more than enough.

_suoiruc5• 14 years ago

Maybe you could add in price comparisons to Dropbox, since they are just an S3 reseller.

creativityhurts• 14 years ago

I think they are a bit more than just a reseller.

_suoiruc5• 14 years ago

Perhaps you could expand on that?

If you pay for Dropbox what exactly are you paying for? Software to communicate with S3?

I'll accept that the software (python+rsync+an icon) is arguably "value added", but for the paying Dropbox user, what they are getting is still S3 storage.

Am I missing something?

mmahemoff• 14 years ago

"Amazon's pricing page was kind of.. ass."

Given Heroku's popularity and the simplicity of its sliders, why has Amazon not put in a few days to build this on S3? I'm asking genuinely as I'm wondering if it really is enterprisey oversight or it really gets them more signups or usage without providing this kind of tool.

As a historical sideline, Amazon is no stranger to sliders. Its diamond search (of all things) was one of the first uses of sliders afaik to narrow down a search, in the early days of Ajax (http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajax-showcase-amazoncom-diamond-... - mentioned in May, 2005)

Also surprising there's no affiliate programme for S3, coming from the mother of all affiliate programmes.

wtn• 14 years ago

If it was obvious how much it cost, fewer people would use it.

cdawzrd• 14 years ago

Doesn't work on my phone. I am used to seeing slider controls that don't support dragging on touchscreens, but these don't appear to support the fallback of tapping a point on the scale to move the slide to that point.

kevindavis5• 14 years ago

Busy with work through this weekend most likely.. feel free to submit a pull request for log scaling: https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing

Will obviously give credit..

tnuc• 14 years ago

The sliders for Storage and Data transfer would be more helpful if I could choose lower value.

More people work with Gigabytes than Terrabytes.

res0nat0r• 14 years ago

I don't know why most people don't just use the official AWS calculator. http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

Sure it's not web 2.0 and ajaxy but it supports almost every single service and is easy to use.

jkaljundi• 14 years ago

Took me a while to understand this is not about the world's best mobile phone :)

hippich• 14 years ago

For me complex part is S3 pricing is IO requests. I have no clue how many requests expect. If you could find approximate values and make a list like: Webpage (1000 Read requests and 10 Write requests), Web Application (10000 read and 10000 write), etc. Or some other way to get an idea of what it should be approximately...

That's my biggest problem with pricing S3.. May be I am alone in that.

A simplified S3 pricing page

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