Fwd: Amazon VOStore?

[John Taylor]

I'm not sure that this is necessarily the end of the world.   We already 
pay for hardware, ongoing maintenance, staff time, supercomputing 
resources....etc
If an organisation decided it was more cost-effective to outsource this 
to Amazon or anyone else, why not?

Christophe.Arviset at esa.int wrote:
> Roy
>
> Apparently, one has to pay (both for storage and for transfer!) to use Amazon
> S3:
>
> "Pricing
> Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost. 
> $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used. 
> $0.20 per GB of data transferred."
>
> There might be technical things to learn from them, but I'm not sure how this
> pricing scheme would fit for the VO.
>
> Cheers
>
> Christophe
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> Quoting Roy Williams <roy at cacr.caltech.edu>:
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>> I wonder what is common and what is different between Amazon S3 and  
>> VOSpace?
>> Roy
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> From: "Alex Szalay" <szalay at jhu.edu>
>>> Date: August 17, 2006 12:49:14 AM PDT
>>> To: "'Roy Williams'" <roy at cacr.caltech.edu>, "'Alex Szalay'"  
>>> <szalay at jhu.edu>
>>> Subject: Amazon VOStore?
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_fe_l_2/104-7699424-9544708? 
>>> ie=UTF8&node=16427261&no=15879911&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA
>>>
>>> We should look at the WS specs.
>>>
>>> --Alex
>>>
>>>       
>> California Institute of Technology
>> 626 395 3670
>>
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