[AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

[ausnog (321)]

Morning all,

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.

Two caveats to my comment are: 
-	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.
-	Even if you are using AWS as highly available clustered storage they are still not that well priced by our price book.

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.

What am I missing?


-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Emily Ozols
Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2012 9:33 AM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

I just read their prices this morning and I'm astounded as how low they've kept them.
They have to be selling at a loss.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
Just check them out here.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:
> This could make some impact re the peering thread at least on a 
> national scale. hmmm
>
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> Dear AWS Customer,
>
> We are excited to announce the immediate availability of our new Asia 
> Pacific (Sydney) Region.
>
> Starting today, customers can run their applications and workloads in 
> the new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region to reduce latency to end-users 
> based in Australia and New Zealand while avoiding the up-front 
> expenses, long-term commitments, and scaling challenges associated 
> with maintaining and operating their own infrastructure. Sydney joins 
> Singapore and Tokyo as the third Region in Asia Pacific and as the ninth Region worldwide.
>
> AWS’s new Sydney
>
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