Cloudscaling CTO Randy Bias wrote an open letter to OpenStack today. In it he outlines why the open cloud effort will only win if it accepts Amazon Web Services (AWS) and creates a compatible API. He ...
Amazon won’t charge for importing the data from Snowball into S3, but it will charge $0.03 per GB for export. After the user sets up a Snowball job on AWS, Amazon will ship them a Snowball appliance.