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Amazon Data Transfer Rates Lowered

Kelly Abbott | February 2, 2010 - 2:03 pm

Amazon sent us an early valentine’s day letter this morning:

Dear AWS Customer,
As you know, we are constantly working to drive our costs down and become more operationally efficient. We then pass on those cost savings to our customers in the form of lower prices. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are lowering AWS pricing for outbound data transfer by $0.02 across all of our services, in all usage tiers, and in all Regions. These changes are effective February 1, 2010.
The new outbound data transfer pricing will be:
First 10 TB per Month: $0.15 per GB
Next 40 TB per Month: $0.11 per GB
Next 100 TB per Month: $0.09 per GB
Over 150 TB per Month: $0.08 per GB
Amazon CloudFront, the easy-to-use content delivery service, continues to have its own outbound data transfer pricing schedule in order to offer the lowest possible rates for each edge location. Effective February 1, Amazon CloudFront will also reduce its outbound data transfer prices by $0.02 per GB across all edge locations and for each usage tier.
Please see the pricing section for any of the AWS infrastructure services on the AWS website for more information. Thank you, as always, for your support.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team

Dear AWS Customer,

As you know, we are constantly working to drive our costs down and become more operationally efficient. We then pass on those cost savings to our customers in the form of lower prices. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are lowering AWS pricing for outbound data transfer by $0.02 across all of our services, in all usage tiers, and in all Regions. These changes are effective February 1, 2010.

The new outbound data transfer pricing will be:

  • First 10 TB per Month: $0.15 per GB
  • Next 40 TB per Month: $0.11 per GB
  • Next 100 TB per Month: $0.09 per GB
  • Over 150 TB per Month: $0.08 per GB

Amazon CloudFront, the easy-to-use content delivery service, continues to have its own outbound data transfer pricing schedule in order to offer the lowest possible rates for each edge location. Effective February 1, Amazon CloudFront will also reduce its outbound data transfer prices by $0.02 per GB across all edge locations and for each usage tier.

…yadda, yadda, yadda….

Sincerely,

The Amazon Web Services Team

Further proof that you can count on the cloud to keep getting cheaper.

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Amazon Web Services Start-Up Event – This Wednesday at SDSU Aztec Athletic Center

Kelly Abbott | March 16, 2009 - 2:19 pm

Jon’s going to be speaking at an Amazon-sponsored event this week about our many uses of their excellent Web services. 

The official event notice and sign-up is here. 

Event details are listed below. We hope to see you there.

 

We look forward to seeing you at The AWS Start-up Event – San Diego, Wednesday, March 18, 2-7pm. The event will be held at the SDSU, Aztec Athletic Center, The Hall of Champions Auditorium.

Directions/ Parking:

If you are coming from Los Angeles: take I-5 South to 805 South to I-8 East.  If you are coming from Riverside County: take I-15 South to I-8 East.  

From I-8, take the College Avenue exit and go South. Turn right at Montezuma (second stop light at the top of the hill). Go to the second stop light on Montezuma (55th Street) and turn right. You will turn onto 55th Street and the parking structure (PS# 5) entrance will be your first left at the light.  Make an immediate left at the first stop light into the parking structure.  

To find the Aztec Athletic Center, exit the parking structure onto 55th Street street, walk North approximately 500 feet past the Alumni Building construction site and the SDSU Athletic Center will be on your left hand side (across from Cox Arena). Enter the building and you will see our registration desk and signs for the AWS Start-Up Event outside The Hall of Champions Auditorium.

 

Event Agenda:

 

1:00-2:00   Doors Open

2:00-3:00    AWS Presentation by Mike Culver, AWS Evangelist  

3:00-3:30    Peter Shaw, Principal, Shaw Management Advisors

3:30-3:45    Break

3:45-3:55    Steve Bjorg, Co-Founder and CTO, MindTouch

3:55-4:05    Chuck Phillips, Director of Technology, Digitaria

4:05-4:15    Jon Gallagher, VP Technology, 3ones

4:15-4:25    David Boland, AdJack, Founder & CEO

4:25-4:45    Customer Q&A

4:45-5:00    Closing Statements by Mike Culver

5:00-7:00    Cocktail & Networking Reception

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Fail Fast & Other Product Development Lessons Learned in the Trenches

Kelly Abbott | February 17, 2009 - 4:37 pm

I spoke at a San Diego TiE event at the end of January. It was a panel of Software Entrepreneurs fielding questions about what the start-up life is like in software these days. Steve Bjorg from MindTouch was there. The two other panelists were Thomas Carter, Founder & CEO, Capital Window  and David Desch, Vice President of Engineering and IT, Digital Force Technologies (he helped Sony launch their HDTV division). For me, the chance to speak at the event was well worth it. I had not a little bit of fun too. In every way, I was the anomaly up there. No success to speak of (in the monetary sense), no “team” and no inhibitions.

Aside from being fun, the event also helped me frame some thoughts I’ve been having. I thought it would be a good idea to get them down on paper while they are fresh and share wit you. Let me know what you think, yeah? [...]

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