We’ve previously covered  storage costs and bandwidth costs which are two of the three overly complicated components  that make up an S3 storage bill.  Storage and Bandwidth make up the vast majority of most monthly bills but there is a third, much smaller component that they call “Request Pricing”.  Amazon defines “requests” as POST, COPY, PUT,  LIST and GET requests.

PUT, POST and LIST requests are involved in uploading files while GET requests occur while downloading files.

PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST Requests are $.01 (one cent) per 1,000 requests while GET requests are $.01 (one cent) per 10,000 requests.

Each of these happen quite often when transferring data to and from your account but the costs for these requests are extremely small.   So, unless you’re running a production type service from your S3 storage these requests should make up only a very small portion of your bill.    In my bills these components have never exceeded  $.01 (one cent).

You can get great, albiet highly technical definitions of PUT, POST, and GET requests on here on Wikipedia.

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Being able to share your files is one of the reasons to store them in the Amazon S3 cloud.  Amazon offers different ways of sharing those files and we’re taking advantage of them, in a really easy to use way, using FIleZoomer.

We’re building in two different types of link building into File Zoomer.

The first (create a read access URL) will allow you to set permanent links that can be shared or posted elsewhere.

The second (Generate temporary read access Url) will allow you to create links that time out after a user defined number of hours.  This is great if you don’t want your file links exposed beyond a set period of time..