Hi Guys,<div><br></div><div>Following on from this discussion, link may be relevant to those investigating the use of AWS for their clients <a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/324296,aapt-provides-direct-pipe-to-amazon-web-services.aspx">http://www.itnews.com.au/News/324296,aapt-provides-direct-pipe-to-amazon-web-services.aspx</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 November 2012 11:13, ausnog (321) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ausnog@321.com.au" target="_blank">ausnog@321.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Morning all,<br>
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My first impression of the rates is a bit contrary to others on this thread. Specifically, I don’t see them as great value for data storage if you are using them for off-site storage.<br>
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Two caveats to my comment are:<br>
- assuming that you are using AWS for off-site backup then you just need a good NAS (we set this up as NAS with Raid 6 plus 1 spare giving 26TB usable space, good performance and resilience with option to replicate to multi datacentres/locations) in 2ru.<br>
- Even if you are using AWS as highly available clustered storage they are still not that well priced by our price book.<br>
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Even using their online price calculator 26TB of usable space (standard storage) costs $2,856.70pm or $34,280.40pa or $102,841.20 over 3 years and it’s not hard to do better than that.<br>
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What am I missing?<br>
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region<br>
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I just read their prices this morning and I'm astounded as how low they've kept them.<br>
They have to be selling at a loss.<br>
<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing</a><br>
Just check them out here.<br>
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Joshua D'Alton <<a href="mailto:joshua@railgun.com.au">joshua@railgun.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
> This could make some impact re the peering thread at least on a<br>
> national scale. hmmm<br>
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> Dear AWS Customer,<br>
><br>
> We are excited to announce the immediate availability of our new Asia<br>
> Pacific (Sydney) Region.<br>
><br>
> Starting today, customers can run their applications and workloads in<br>
> the new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region to reduce latency to end-users<br>
> based in Australia and New Zealand while avoiding the up-front<br>
> expenses, long-term commitments, and scaling challenges associated<br>
> with maintaining and operating their own infrastructure. Sydney joins<br>
> Singapore and Tokyo as the third Region in Asia Pacific and as the ninth Region worldwide.<br>
><br>
> AWS’s new Sydney<br>
><br>
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