Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage Option

Public cloud data storage customers believe that the recently launched Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) option is a step in the right direction, although, according to this Tech Target report, it's not yet clear if RRS will draw a wider audience of reluctant enterprise storage customers to public cloud storage.

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"RRS offers Amazon customers the ability to choose fewer "hops" of object replication among Amazon's facilities for a lower cost per gigabyte. With RRS, objects would survive one complete data center failure, but wouldn't be replicated enough times to survive two concurrent data center failures. RRS pricing starts at 10 cents per GB per month for the first 50 TB of storage, and can drop to below 4 cents per GB ($0.037, to be exact) for more than 5 PBs. Regular Amazon S3 pricing starts at 15 cents per GB for up to 50 TB."

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