Archive for March, 2010
Cloud Computing And Data Sector Stock Reviews; A Market Analysis
Mar 31st
March 31, 2010 – The Wall Street Transcript has just published Data Hosting & Data Storage Report offering a timely review of the Data Storage sector. This Special Report contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. Please find an excerpt below.
Mark Kelleher is a Managing Director and Senior Analyst at Brigantine Advisors. He spent 15 years on Wall Street as a sell-side analyst before joining Brigantine Advisors, where he focuses on enterprise infrastructure. His past experience includes Senior Analyst roles at such firms as Tucker Anthony, First Albany and Canaccord Adams. In 1999 Mr. Kelleher was one of the first analysts to alert investors to the coming revolution in storage that included SANs and NAS architectures. Mr. Kelleher spent seven years as a Hardware Engineer, designing ASICs for Digital Equipment Corporation. He has an MBA from Boston University, and a B.S. in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
TWST: So with customers outsourcing more, in some ways the economic slowdown has been good for these companies. What does economic improvement bring for them?
Mr. Kelleher: I think the model has now been tested. You had this downturn and people kind of reached out for this model and explored it, and I think people are getting comfortable with it. I know the government is. The government now has these very secure buildings, and there’s a big push with the administration to put everything out in the cloud. You now have these examples out there of things that work. I think that has happened in the commercial side as well. You have companies like Rackspace. Rackspace doesn’t do colocation, but they do do cloud computing, and people who are using that are happy with that.
At the low end of the market, Amazon.com (AMZN) has their cloud computing facility. As you get more examples out there, as the recession kind of pushed people over the chasm – you talk about jumping the chasm, but I think the recession pushed people over that chasm – now they are over it and now you’re in the widespread adoption phase. If you look at Terremark, for example, they have a March fiscal year ending March 2010. And for the full year, they should be up about 17% year-over-year. That’s not bad, considering the past year that we’ve had.
TWST: As you mentioned, cloud computing is a hot topic for the industry. What’s the broader impact of this for the industry? Do you consider any particular companies to be better positioned to capitalize on the opportunities cloud computing represents?
Mr. Kelleher: There are a number of different places that are interesting to look at. One is just the simple facilities of who is providing it. I keep coming back to Terremark because I’m very impressed with their facilities and a company like Terremark is well positioned to pick up that business. Equinix doesn’t do managed services, it doesn’t really do the higher-level cloud computing capabilities, but Equinix has made itself the on-ramp for the Internet, with all of the connectivity that they have within their facilities. So they are all well positioned. On the product side, it’s companies that are designing platforms that are specifically aimed at a virtual environment.
VMware is well positioned on the server side, and companies like NetApp (NTAP) are extremely well positioned on the storage side. And you’re starting to see them increasingly show up within data centers as the platform of choice for cloud computing. You can go in other directions, too. NetScout (NTCT), for example, is a company that does network diagnostic software and hardware to figure out what’s going on across the wires. If you have a virtual environment, you have a lot more bandwidth going across between different points, and it becomes more important to know which virtual machine is affecting which virtual machine and really figuring out what’s causing delays on the network. That’s where something like NetScout can come in. There are different elements at play within the whole architecture.
TWST: Are there any other new technologies coming down the pipe that would impact these companies in terms of significant capital investments or competitive standing?
Mr. Kelleher: On the colocation and service providers side, it’s primarily the investment in the facilities that requires the top capacity. On the other side, the R And D that has to be spent to get to a cloud computing level has been invested and now you’re either there or you’re not. I think companies like 3PAR and Compellent (CML) are there, but companies like Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) are behind. Hewlett-Packard, with their EVA product line in storage, is falling behind, in my opinion, in the virtual storage world, and they are beginning to lose market share. They put out their numbers last week and one of the only weak spots in their entire report was their storage group. Well, their loss is NetApp’s gain. NetApp is growing 15% year-over-year.
That is faster than the storage market is growing, so they’re taking market share and benefiting from the fact that they’ve already spent a good amount on R And D to get their products to the next level. So if the economy picks up – as a lot of people, including myself, believe that we are out of the woods – the IT world is anticipating, or I think has put off, upgrades to their technology for some time, and now you’re in the mode where you’re going to hit a refresh cycle. And when that refresh cycle hits, those dollars are going to go towards the most advanced virtual infrastructures that are out there. I think that’s where some of these companies like NetApp are positioned strongly. Full Source
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Cloud Computing – Is Amazon Winning the Cloud Race?
Mar 31st
From our perspective, it looks like Amazon is winning the cloud race. Amazon and Google pioneered the notion of ‘devops‘, where agile practices are applied to merging the disciplines of development and operations. Devops teams are inherent to cloud computing. They are the only way to scale and compete.
For example, in my conversations with Amazon it’s been explained how their operations team is really only two parts:
- Infrastructure Engineering: software development for automating hardware/software and building horizontal service layers
- Datacenter Operations: rack & stack and replace broken hardware
There isn’t a team that manually configures software or hardware as in traditional operations teams or enterprise IT. This is by design. It’s the only way to effectively scale up to running thousands of servers per operator.
More importantly, by automating everything, you become fast and agile, able to build an ecosystem of cloud services more rapidly than your competitors.
With the possible exception of Rackspace Cloud, I’m not sure that anyone else is in Amazon or Google’s league. Amazon in particular, has a track record that is incredibly impressive.
From a quick culling of all of the Amazon Web Services press releases since the launch of it’s initial service (SQS in 2004), after removing non-feature press releases and minor releases of little value, we came up with the following graph:
The trend is clear. Since Amazon’s start, they have accelerated rapidly, almost doubling their feature releases every year. 2009 was spectacular with 43 feature releases of note. Since the beginning of 2010, Amazon already has 8 releases of note.
In contrast, traditional hosting companies moving into cloud computing are hobbled by running two teams: development and operations. Expect the gap to widen as more hosting companies continue to misunderstand that this race isn’t about technology; it’s about people, software, and discipline.
So what’s the takeaway? Simply put, in order to be a major cloud player you need to change how you do IT and build clouds. Either hire someone who can bring the devops practice into your shop or engage an cloud computing engineering services firm like Cloudscaling to help you build fast, nimble teams that focus on automation and rapid release cycles. Full Source CloudScaling
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When will cloud computing start raining cash? Cloudtweaks.com
Mar 30th
Open-source cloud vendor Eucalyptus is rumored to be raising venture money at a $100 million valuation. Meanwhile, an Under The Radar conference dubbed “Commercializing the Cloud” is set for mid-April at which a host of new start-ups will talk about how they’re set to shake the clouds free of billions of dollars in sales.
Will money fall from the sky?
It can’t come soon enough. For all the talk about cloud computing, the business of cloud computing is still in its infancy.
When will it grow up?
There’s no shortage of exceptionally cool cloud technology. The most recent company to get buzz (and props from Amazon Web Services’ chief evangelist) is JumpBox, which enables open-source applications to be delivered as virtualized cloud services.
But is there gold in them thar clouds?
Of course there is. The question is when it will materialize.
By some estimates, it already has. Gartner pegged the cloud computing market at $56.3 billion back in 2009, but that estimate took a pretty expansive view of what comprises the cloud, throwing SaaS and a host of other things into the cloud category.
What about infrastructure-as-a-service and more “traditional” definitions of cloud computing. How is that market doing?
Not nearly as well, though it is growing. Some have speculated that Amazon’s EC2, the epicenter of IaaS, is now generating north of $220 million in annual revenue. That’s a big number, but is it enough to warrant the cloud hype?
In a word, yes. That’s because although we’re still a year away from cloud computing trickling into the mainstream–and hence creating serious revenue waves–it’s clearly coming. Talking with open-source cloud vendors such as Eucalyptus, VMops, and Open Nebula, as well as others like Northscale, VMware, etc., there’s a tremendous amount of trial and evaluation happening right now, which should translate into paid engagements in the very near future.
So, $100 million may seem rich for Eucalyptus, given that it’s still in its youth as a cash-generating business. But it’s also a sign of good revenue to come in the next few months, not years. Full Source
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Cloud Computing News – Coal fuels much of the cloud, Greenpeace says
Mar 30th
The “cloud” of data that is becoming the heart of the Internet is creating an all-too-real cloud of pollution as Facebook, Apple and others build data centers powered by coal, Greenpeace said in a new report to be released Tuesday.
A Facebook facility being built in Oregon will rely on a utility whose main fuel is coal, while Apple is building a data warehouse in a North Carolina region that relies mostly on coal, the environmental organization said in the study.
“The last thing we need is for more cloud infrastructure to be built in places where it increases demand for dirty coal-fired power,” said Greenpeace, which argues that Web companies should be more careful about where they build and should lobby more in Washington for clean energy.
The growing mass of business data, home videos, and photographs has ballooned beyond the capabilities of many corporate data centers and personal computers, spurring the creation of massive server farms that make up a “cloud,” an emerging phenomenon known as cloud computing.
The Greenpeace report (PDF) comes during a global debate whether to create caps or other measures to cut use of carbon-heavy fuels like coal and curb climate change.
Cheap and plentiful, coal is the top fuel for U.S. power plants, and its low cost versus alternative fuels makes it attractive, even in highly energy-efficient data centers.
Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google have at least some centers that rely heavily on coal power, said Greenpeace.
Most of the companies declined to give details of their data centers to Reuters. All said, however, they considered the environment in business decisions, and most said they were aggressively pursuing energy efficiency.
High technology companies say they support the environment. Apple has released its carbon footprint, or how much greenhouse gases it produces, and Facebook said it chose the location for its center to use natural means to cool its machines.
Microsoft said it aimed to maximize efficiency, and Google said it purchased carbon offsets–funding for projects which suck up carbon–for emissions, including at data centers.
Yahoo, which is building a center near Buffalo, N.Y., that Greenpeace saw as a model, will get energy from hydroelectric facilities. The company said energy-efficiency was the top goal, with a building design that promotes air circulation.
Data center energy use already is huge, Greenpeace said.
If considered as a country, global telecommunications and data centers behind cloud computing would have ranked fifth in the world for energy use in 2007, behind the United States, China, Russia and Japan, it concluded.
The cloud may be the fastest-growing facet of technology infrastructure between now and 2020, said Greenpeace.
The group based its findings on a mix of data, including a federal review of fuels in U.S. ZIP codes in 2005 and a 2008 study by the Climate Group and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, which Greenpeace updated in part with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data.
Story Copyright (c) 2010 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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Why Cloud Computing Leaders Need to Demand Clean Power
Mar 30th
The launch of Apple’s (a AAPL) iPad this weekend represents a lot of firsts for the tech industry: a device with some of the most media attention of all time, and the start of an $8 billion tablet application market. But the iPad also represents one of a wave of media-consuming mobile devices that increasingly depends on “the cloud” — basically the Internet and data centers — to deliver hosted services and digital content, and will help contribute to a massive growth in energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with so-called cloud-computing over the coming years.
According to a report published Tuesday from the environmental researchers at Greenpeace , the energy consumption and carbon emissions of cloud computing are already significantly higher than previously thought. Using data from The Climate Group’s Smart 2020 report, which came out in 2008 and relied on carbon emission projections from McKinsey, Greenpeace added in the energy consumption info for data centers reported by the Environmental Protection Agency. The result is that Greenpeace says that the energy consumption of cloud computing in 2007 was 622.6 billion kWh, which is 1.3 times larger than reported by the Smart 2020 report.
This new, larger estimate of energy consumption associated with cloud computing emphasizes just how big the problem will be as the sector grows over the coming years. Cloud computing is a trend that has just started (see our Structure 2010 conference) and business-focused cloud computing initiatives like Microsoft’s Azure platform have recently launched. Using the more aggressive cloud computing energy footprint, Greenpeace says that cloud computing will consume 1,963.74 billion kWh of energy by 2020.
All of this isn’t to say that cloud computing companies need to curb their growth. Rather, they need to focus on making data centers and servers more energy efficient and increasingly look to source more clean power. Greenpeace points to Facebook’s decision to build its first-ever data center in Prineville, Ore., which will primarily be powered by coal (GigaOM Pro, subscription required), as a major missed opportunity.
Instead, Internet giants like Google, Yahoo, and Apple should use their energy buying power to demand more access to economic clean power and to support policies that will help drive the proliferation of low-cost renewables. Greenpeace says:
The potential of ICT technologies and cloud computing to drive low-carbon economic growth underscore the importance of building cloud infrastructure in places powered by clean renewable energy. Companies like Facebook, Google, and other large players in the cloud computing market must advocate for policy change at the local, national and international levels to ensure that, as their appetite for energy increases, so does the supply of renewable energy.
We’ll be looking at the issues of energy consumption and the carbon footprint of information technology, data centers and servers at our Green:Net conference. Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl will be discussing some of the search engine’s industry-leading green data center work, and Greenpeace’s Casey Harrell, one of the authors of the report, will be discussing how the Internet leads to dematerialization, or replacing atoms with bits.
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Former MySQL CEO talks Eucalyptus and cloud computing
Mar 29th
Marten Mickos presided over the growth of MySQL from an open source project to a $1 billion business that was fundamental to growth of the commercial Web, and he’s now taken the reins at another open source project turned for-profit venture, Eucalyptus Systems. The startup develops software that turns commodity servers into cloud computing environments that act like Amazon Web Services. Eucalyptus powers the NASA Nebula project, one of the largest cloud environments in the federal government today, and some research and data crunching projects at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, among others. Mickos explains his return to business and why he chose cloud computing.
What prompted the move to Eucalyptus and what are the immediate plans for the business?
Marten Mickos: It’s a massive opportunity and a great team; I couldn’t resist it. In 2010, we are not changing any plans. We are ramping up the growth rate and investment, but it’s essentially the plan that the management detailed last year. Two key things this year are to get more releases out, to be very diligent with producing more code and release it with high quality, and the other thing is securing some key partnerships and customer relationships.
We already work closely with Canonical on the Ubuntu cloud edition, that’s one obvious thing; we’ll be working with other large manufacturers of hardware and software and even system integrators who are the one’s actually building the private clouds for large enterprises.
Does Eucalyptus have the same potential as MySQL?
MM: This might be an even bigger opportunity, business-wise. It’s so early in cloud computing to estimate how big it will be. It’s something that is needed all over the planet in most data centers, public or private, so I think it will be a massive opportunity. Of course, we don’t know whether we will win. We think we have a great start, we know how to go about it, but of course there are many question marks here. That’s the thrill of it.
This looks like a green field market? A new space for growth based on cloud?
MM: Well, if you listen to Goldman Sachs or Piper Jaffray or those guys, they say that this is the biggest thing in the coming ten years, and the biggest thing really means something massive. To be the biggest thing, it has to be a question of tens of billions of dollars in total. I’m not saying we can capture all of it, but I think Eucalyptus has a unique opportunity to be a very strategic player in that market. Of course, there are big players, vendors who will be strong players in cloud computing, there will be small and large ones. I know and I can sense it’s a huge opportunity compared to anything out there.
Is now the time that cloud is coming to fruition as a market?
MM: Well, I can’t say I’m super analytical about it. I’ve learnt a lot in the last 12 months, that’s obviously clear. I still think its early days, so if somebody joins cloud computing a year from now, it may not be too late. Even two years from now, there will be plenty of big new opportunities. So I’m joining early, but at the same time, I’m also seeing that there is real revenue to be had, right now.
What is so great about the cloud? We have outsourced and services delivered online already, and some say they’ve being doing it all along.
MM: Our view is that cloud computing is a new challenge and you need new software to solve it. You can’t solve new problems with old software. I think the world has shown that over and over again.
Sure, some vendors will still claim that some old software they have is capable of providing cloud computing services. Let’s be clear, the old guys do have functioning solutions. Oracle and IBM and Microsoft, they have great software stacks that work well and they may produce great computing or they may produce something else, Software as a Service (SaaS), that is getting close to cloud. They do not have Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), where you get complete elasticity with the services, and there are a number of new benefits you get with something like Eucalyptus that you cannot get with the old stuff. The old stuff works, it works very well, so you shouldn’t expect it to completely go away, but it doesn’t provide the same level of benefits.
Technological advances do provide new opportunities, and maybe they are not new under the sun, but they bring some distinctive benefit that wasn’t there before.
Where are the challenges for cloud computing?
MM: Well, there will be inertia among customers. Not all customers will be ready to jump on this bandwagon right away; some will. But I think we talk about the whole notion of elastic clouds and we forget that building elasticity is really, really, really difficult. Getting a cloud that can truly scale up and down seamlessly, that’s hard work. Doing it with low latency is even harder, and then adding on top of that the metering, the awareness of what resources are being used and where the bottlenecks are; in the aggregate, it means it’s a huge technical challenge.
Will cloud computing inevitably turn computing power into a uniform commodity, like corn?
MM: There will definitely be services like that, but we will always continue to have corporations and governments who cannot live in such an environment and need the security and the assurance and the uptime that you can only provide through a dedicated service. That’s what Eucalyptus is targeting, the private cloud where there are heightened requirements on exactly those areas.
But sure, there will probably be computing available from the 7-11 where everybody can buy a little bit of computing where they need it. And Amazon is showing that; it’s amazing what Amazon is doing with their cloud, we must not underestimate their meaning to the market. They’re showing you can run it with low margins, on a massive scale, for consumers and corporations, available for anybody. Cloud computing wouldn’t be in the state it’s in today if Amazon hadn’t shown the way.
And the future looks bright?
MM: I think it’s hard! It’s difficult. This is a difficult area, it’s not for the faint of heart, but there’s just a massive opportunity. The world will need this; there’s just a constant need for cloud computing solutions. It’s not like we’ll suddenly realize it’s just a fad and nobody really needed it. People will need it. The challenge will be in whether we can make it sufficiently efficient and functional and easy to use. Full Source
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For Open Cloud Computing, Look Inside Your Data Center
Mar 29th
For all the talk about openness and interoperability in cloud computing, both public-cloud and private-cloud providers still operate very much in their own silos.
Amazon, Rackspace, Google, Microsoft are all doing wonderful things — but they’re doing so largely within their own environments. And while (most) data center vendors can’t offer users complete vertically integrated cloud stacks, they’re more than happy to lock users into their product lines as much as possible and form strong partnerships in areas they don’t play.
However, the writing on the wall suggests that, from the customer’s perspective, things might be changing for the better — especially when it comes to internal clouds.
Two of the best examples, as I discuss in my weekly column over at GigaOM Pro, are Red Hat and Eucalyptus. Both open-source companies have increasingly popular products that compete well with the big dogs — VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and Amazon. Red Hat’s continuously high profits in the face of the economic recession show customer confidence that might follow it into the cloud when it starts pushing such a migration. Eucalytpus appears to be doing strong business as well. According to reports, the company, which has raised $5.5 million to this point, is now valued at $100 million.
Openness is picking up on the hardware side, too. Dell, for one, has been touting its open approach to picking components, and it bolstered its argument with a slew of cloud announcements this week, as well as InfoWorld test results that show Dell blades performing on par with those from market leaders. At this point, a standards-based approach anywhere in the stack should be welcome: While open standards have long been a rallying cry of cloud commentators, reports from the recent Cloud Connect event suggest we can expect to wait a long while until meaningful software standards actually emerge.
How the internal-cloud market will play out is anybody’s guess, with systems and software vendors all trying to establish themselves as cloud-computing leaders. What’s clear, however, is that open source and open standards will have a place within cloud data centers at levels currently not present in the public-cloud sphere. Full Source
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Investment Implications Of Cloud Computing – CloudTweaks
Mar 26th
The impact of cloud computing on the enterprise computing landscape is reminiscent of the shift from big mainframe systems to client server computing in the ’90s. A step change in the economics of computing is driving this transformation and creating opportunities for new providers, while threatening the established business models of traditional application software and data center technology vendors.
Established vendors such as:
Microsoft (MSFT : 30.01, 0.36),
SAP (SAP : 46.99, 0.01),
Cisco (CSCO : 26.44, 0),
IBM (IBM : 129.27, 0.69),
HP (HPQ : 53.5, 0.42),
Dell (DELL : 14.93, -0.07),
EMC (EMC : 18.73, -0.11), and
NetApp (NTAP : 32.66, -0.52)
could face significant headwinds as public cloud computing gains customer acceptance.
The Public Cloud
Cloud computing has evolved into a broad term encompassing all manner of remotely delivered computing resources and services. Broadly speaking, uniform IT services provided remotely to multiple customers from third-party controlled data centers have been christened the “public cloud.”
The public cloud generally features large scale data centers comprised of commodity hardware orchestrated by custom management software. There is a wide variety of public cloud services, but most share the following attributes:
- Utility Model: Customers pay for public cloud computing services on a subscription or metered basis, replacing fixed up-front IT capital expenditures with variable operating expenses.
- Elastic Resources: Customers can access additional cloud computing capacity as needed, thereby eliminating the need to permanently provision capacity for peak demand.
- Shared Resources: Users share computing resources with other customers using virtual rather than physical data and processing partitions.
For the purpose of this discussion, we segment the public cloud market based on the tier of service provided, with each tier sharing certain economic characteristics. A conceptual representation of the service tiers is shown below. Computing infrastructure (servers, storage, networking) forms the physical foundation on which software platforms (application runtime environments, databases) are installed. End-user applications such as customer relationship management software are built and deployed on the software platform. Public cloud customers can lease capacity at any tier: software applications (software-as-a-service), software platform (platform-as-a-service), or raw infrastructure (infrastructure-as-a-service).
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
SaaS has the longest track record among cloud services and growth remains strong, but barriers to entry are lower than traditional on-premise application software. SaaS involves software applications running in remote data centers accessed by customers over the Internet. In its most scalable form, vendors employ a multitenant approach where the same basic software is shared by multiple customers, with some opportunity for customization. Customers benefit from the subscription model as well as ease of adoption and management–accessing a new SaaS service can be as easy as pointing a web browser to a specific web address. The list of SaaS vendors is very long and growing by the day, but prominent examples include Salesforce.com (CRM 
: 75.98, -0.2) and NetSuite (N : 14.18, 0.03).
The constrained customizability of multi-tenant SaaS has limited its usage to best-practices based applications such as customer relationship management, financial accounting, and human resource management. Although we expect greater flexibility as technology advances, we think near-term growth in SaaS is likely to come from within the realm of such standardized services. That said, vendors such as SAP and NetSuite are attempting to deliver more complex business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the SaaS model. We think such efforts are unlikely to make inroads with large enterprises in the foreseeable future, but could suit the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) that do not have the IT staff or the capital budget for traditionally expensive business application software.
The ease of adoption of SaaS applications is also the Achilles heel in vendors’ ability to generate significant economic profit. With little customer investment in equipment, software license fees, customization and training of support staff, switching SaaS providers can be as easy as transferring data to a new vendor and changing the mailing name and address on the subscription check. However, end user re-training requirements still serve as a barrier, and the stickiness of SaaS applications increases with the number of customers’ employees using the service. Acknowledging this, salesforce automation (SFA) vendor Salesforce.com has made a concerted effort to expand beyond its footprint in customers’ sales organizations by adding a social networking service (Chatter Cloud) that the company hopes will increase the user base, and thus the stickiness, of its services. The firm is also investing in the development of adjacent business applications on its platform, with the expectation that a classic suite approach would naturally increase the stickiness and profitability of its service.
The relatively lower stickiness of SaaS implies lower profitability and returns on capital than that historically delivered by companies like Oracle (ORCL : 25.75, 0) and Microsoft. Full Source
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Announcing Combined AWS Data Transfer Pricing – Amazon Cloud Computing
Mar 26th
Starting April 1, 2010, your Data Transfer Out pricing tier for a given Region will be based on your total Data Transfer Out usage within that Region for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS). Until now, usage tiers have been calculated individually for each service, based on data transfer related to that service. Because AWS is now aggregating your total Data Transfer Out usage across multiple services, you can reach higher usage tiers and lower pricing more quickly. In addition, you’ll benefit from a complimentary tier which provides your first GB of outbound transfer in each Region each month at no charge.
The tiered pricing for Data Transfer Out is as follows for each Region:
- First 1 GB of data transferred out per month is free
- Remainder of first 10 TB per Month: $0.15 per GB
- Next 40 TB per Month: $0.11 per GB
- Next 100 TB per Month: $0.09 per GB
- Over 150 TB per Month: $0.08 per GB
As you may know, all inbound data transfer is free of charge until June 30, 2010. All data transfer usage (both inbound and outbound) for participating Amazon Web Services now appears in aggregate in its own section of your AWS account activity page and monthly bill. As a bonus, you’ll notice that your first GB of outbound data transfer in each Region is now included free of charge.
Source Amazon Website
