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

[Joshua D'Alton]

Yes the price for 5000TB over 3 years is more than 15 million, yet the
hardware would cost less than 2mill, add in racking and bandwidth it might
rise to 5 mil, but nowhere near 10 let alone 15.

Anyway, AWS isn't used by penny pinchers :D



On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:13 AM, ausnog (321) <ausnog at 321.com.au> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > 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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