Glacier is Amazon's storage offering that is targeted at archiving and backup workloads, and Redshift is the company's analytics service that is optimised for large datasets measured in terabyte and petabyte ranges.
One of the unique aspects of cloud computing when vendors offer it in different datacentres and regions is that it ends up competing with itself — and AWS is no exception.
The image above shows the differences in pricing for Glacier, which increasingly gets more expensive for Sydney when compared to the US, eventually ending just short of three times more expensive loads in 150TB to 500TB.
It's a similar story with Redshift; increasing loads results in increased costs. Once again, Australian pricing approaches a tripling of the US rate as workloads get larger.
AWS now boasts of 14,000 customers across Australia and New Zealand, and is used by Atlassian, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, MYOB, and Halfbrick Studios (the maker of Fruit Ninja).
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Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to journalism, others would correctly argue that it is a mere 10 metres according to the floor plan.During his first five years with CBS Interactive, Chris started his journalistic advent...
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Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to journalism, others would correctly argue that it is a mere 10 metres according to the floor plan.During his first five years with CBS Interactive, Chris started his journalistic adventure in 2006 as the Editor of Builder AU after originally joining the company as a programmer.Leaving CBS Interactive in 2010 to follow his deep desire to study the snowdrifts and culinary delights of Canada, Chris based himself in Vancouver and paid for his new snowboarding and poutine cravings as a programmer for a lifestyle gaming startup.Chris returns to CBS in 2011 as the Editor of TechRepublic Australia determined to meld together his programming and journalistic tendencies once and for all.In his free time, Chris is often seen yelling at different operating systems for their own unique failures, avoiding the dreaded tech support calls from relatives, and conducting extensive studies of internets -- he claims he once read an entire one.
