New Amazon S3 Data Transfer Pricing

This is incredible. The price for transferring data into your S3 account is now FREE! Starting July 1, 2011. And now they have pricing for data storage in the Petabyte range. That just blows my mind.

New inbound data transfer price for all regions (effective July 1, 2011)

• $0.000 - all data transfer in

New data transfer price for US-Standard, US-West and Europe regions (effective July 1, 2011)

• $0.000 - first 1 GB / month data transfer out


• $0.120 per GB - up to 10 TB / month data transfer out (10 TB total)


• $0.090 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out (50TB total)


• $0.070 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out (150 TB total)


• $0.050 per GB - next 350 TB / month data transfer out (500 TB total)


• Contact us - next 524 TB / month data transfer out (1PB total)


• Contact us - next 4 PB / month data transfer out (5PB total)


• Contact us - data transfer out / month over 5 PB

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