[TriLUG] AWS/S3 hosting

[Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG]

Thanks, Lance.

All it took was knowing where to click . . . and finally noticing that changes 
in various parameters resulted in costs being shown at the *top* of the page!

--
Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email: RogerB at bronord.com
     Web Site: www.bronord.com

On 01/23/2017 09:40 AM, Lance A. Brown via TriLUG wrote:
> Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG wrote on 1/22/2017 10:20 PM:
>> Very useful info for a new comer to cloud / AWS.
>>
>> I find the pricing impossible to under stand. I want to use ASW / S3 for
>> off-site back up by keeping data in an encrypted .tar file. Data size
>> would be less than 150 GB with infrequent transfers. They say it's cheap
>> but I'm a loss to verify that.
> Hi Roger,
>
> AWS provides a cost estimator to help you get a feel for such things:
>
> https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
>
> You need to guestimate what kind of request traffic you'll be generating
> but you can at least get a feel for what it might cost you.  Second tab
> down on the lft is 'Amazon S3'.
>
> --[Lance]