AWS Elastic File System is go

Amazon Web Services has taken its Elastic File System (EFS) storage service live in three regions after over a year in preview testing. The EFS system was rolled out as a preview a year ago April, and the firm said it's now live in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. The service …

[Dadmin]

Fixing stuff is my bag, Good Sir

"The US regions will charge US$0.30 per GB per month, with European data costing EU$0.3H, and UBlightyK will be 37,000 haypennies 200GigaShillings and 4 pence plus your family spoon collection for the same amount and period."

[InsaneGeek]

Holy crap that's expensive

To compare that to 250TB traditional private storage array who's life span is 4x years...

100TB (aka 1000gb*100) * $0.30 * 48 months = $1.44 million. So $1.4mil for a measly 100TB of storage, that's loan shark prices...

Why does mgmt continue to say cloud is cheap... it's like 5x times the price to maintain on site

[Adam 52]

Re: Holy crap that's expensive

You seem to have forgotten rent, power, servicing, 24x7 support and salaries in your calculation. And the bit about "multiple Availability Zones".

But yes, it is expensive - you pay for the flexibility of not being stuck with the same solution for 4 years.