Comments on: How does Amazon S3 Calculate Storage Used

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:29:21 +0000

Thanks – In the case you describe there would probably be no storage cost but there would be bandwidth costs, which can add up. The constantly track bandwidth used (see this post for more information on how they calculate it)

For storage my understanding is that they charge for bytes used per hour so I’m sure they have a way of tracking how much actual storage your using but in your example that number is fairly small – assuming you really do only keep the files on their storage for 5 minutes. If so the transfer time would exceed the length of time you’re storing the file so at any given time you’d only be storing a single 2 GB file.

By: Danny Briere

Danny Briere — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:58:15 +0000

Great post! Do you know what they do about the following? We need to ‘transit’ S3 for the creation of uploads to YouTube. So we will dump a 2GB file on S3 for about 5 mins., and then delete it. If we did this 100 times a day, would they charge us for 200GB, for the amount that is there when they check (which would be n x 2GB where n happens to be the number of transits going on at the time, so n=0…100 conceivably)?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:42:08 +0000

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By: Kirti

Kirti — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:46:09 +0000

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