I've just re-discovered Amazon's S3 service (http://aws.amazon.com/s3/) and was wondering if anyone had any opinions of it? Can it be used to host videos? If so, I would imagine that you can shave off a lot of server strain by hosting videos on Amazon S3. It also looks a little too cheap, what's the catch? ($0.150 per GB – first 50 TB/month doesn't sound right?!) I'm looking to add a capability to my video site where people can share my videos on their blogs or sites by copying a code snippet, but I can't afford the server costs to do this, so if S3 can do it, it would be worth my while. EDIT: I screwed up and posted this in the wrong place.
ive never used it but for sure it can host videos because ive bought products where they have online videos and they are all hosted on amazon s3.
Thanks -- something about the pricing looks a little off, though. Take a quick look at this: ...I'm just thinking about how my site would basically take forever to even hit the first billing cycle, which makes it seem fishy to me. So, if I'm paying .17 cents per GB of transfer and I only use 40 GB of transfer per month (which I do, according to cPanel), then I'm only paying $6.80 a month using Amazon S3 instead of paying $185/mo for a dedicated server??? If anyone could further explain this (or tell me I'm wrong), please do so, it would be greatly appreciated
Isn't amazon s3 data storage, not webhosting? Wouldn't you need to use amazon ec2 cloud hosting to host a website?
adam - yes, it's data storage. A moderator moved my post in here, it's probably not the right place to put this thread.
Ah, I see. That does look really cheap. I guess if they have huge cogent commit's, it's possible that they can offer services so cheap.