Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor 'Cloud' bandwidth on the cheap... Google appears prepped to launch a cloud bandwidth competitor to Amazon's S3 service at the company's I/O conference this week. In addition to a REST API, integration of Google accounts for authenticated downloads and data redundancy, Google obviously hopes to make it easy for existing S3 customers to make the switch. There's a tiny bit more detail here about the product, which will be dubbed "Google Storage for Developers." Amazon this week meanwhile announced they'd be offering Reduced Redundancy Storage (which offers less than Amazon S3's usual 99.999999999% data protection) (RRS) for $0.10 per gigabyte per month.
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1 edit | I'd do it if like Dropbox $1/mo for 10GB is worth it but would only do it has an option similar to Dropbox asynchronous syncing. I still want to be able to get to the data when offline and then sync back when jacked in.
Edit: After looking into this, is it targeted to consumers? Looks like Dropbox themselves use Amazon's S3. | |
|  | | | Re: I'd do it if like Dropbox This is really only for developers, Dropbox, Box.net and Mozy all use S3 on the backend. This would be the same, if they can do it cheaper than Amazon and provide more functionality, it may take off.
Amazon really hit it out of the park with S3 and their whole cloud architecture (S3, EC2, SimpleDB, Cloud Front), it'll be interesting to see how they respond to real competition (Azure isn't ready for prime-time yet). | |
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|  GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
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kudos:16 | All the details are already available... From here:
»code.google.com/apis/storage/
and here:
»code.google.com/apis/storage/doc···iew.html
Here's the pricing:
Google Storage for Developers pricing is based on usage.
Storage—$0.17/gigabyte/month
Network
Upload data to Google
$0.10/gigabyte
Download data from Google
$0.15/gigabyte for Americas and EMEA
$0.30/gigabyte for APAC
Requests
PUT, POST, LIST—$0.01 per 1,000 requests
GET, HEAD—$0.01 per 10,000 requests | |
| | | my webhost just asked.... in a survey about possibly offereing cloud computing offerings in the future what i thought if google bought them out :| then i see this, eeeeeek. | |
|  Unother
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| No Surprise I was at the Web2.0 Expo and Google and Microsoft were both angling for the "cloudspace".
It's a natural for them both, as they both have vast amounts of distributed servers. And besides, Amazon has had no competition till now--and their prices have dropped a bit recently. Now I see why...
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