Anyone using Amazon S3?

[DHR]

I'm after a cheap offsite storage provider to backups my lossless audio and photo files. I know amazon do glacier which would be perfect for my needs but the QNAP I run has S3 backup built in.

Is anyone using it? I'm trying to get a rough idea of costings?

 

[Drambuie]

Hi

I've used it for years for basic storage of docs and some photos etc. My costs are minimal - around 20-30 cents a month for probably around 1/2 gig to a gig total stored. I think traffic to and from the servers is what they charge for mainly. Obviously scales on usage - pricing is here:

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Glacier looks even better tho tbh if you're just using it as a data store, as I do. Might change

 

[shine]

I use to use S3 for backups, costs about 1-2 dollars per month. My total storage is ~45GB today. S3 contains my documents and personal photo libraries.

You have to factor in that if you ever needed to download your data you'll incur extra costs.

 

[nolimit]

At work we use Amazon S3 to backup our webteam media drive (synology ds412+). So far backed up around 2tb and it costs roughly £50 a month.