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A comment on Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload. Parent comment

Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by oinksoft on Friday January 20, 2012 @08:48AM (#3489417)
S3 costs money?
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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by emillon on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:28AM (#3489745)
There's a free tier, but it's not a free service :

> 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by sp332 on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:48AM (#3489839)
Amazon doesn't break S3 out in their financial reports, but estimates are that they made half a Billion dollars in revenue in 2010, and certainly more than that in 2011.
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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by oinksoft on Friday January 20, 2012 @01:57PM (#3490697)
That was a question to parent. _Of course_ S3 costs money. That's why it's not reasonable to compare it to a service like Megaupload, where you only needed to pay if you wanted to store over 200GB total, or have individual files larger than 2GB.
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