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Thanks for sharing. It would be interesting to see where the growth in all categories is coming form. Is it mostly increasing usage of existing users of growth through new users. As always it’s probably a good mix but the relation (of the mix) would be interesting to see mapped to the Amazon stats.

What units are on the y-axis?

AC- I would guess GB. Mark- Thanks for sharing.

Actually, judging from the numbers in the last stats post, it appears the units are MB. The lesson here: always label your graphs!

You sure it’s GB? You’re storing 11 Terabytes worth of data on S3?

Great post! I’ve been thinking about moving my business server over to Amazon but didn’t have any idea what their costs were. Your other post and this one really open up a lot of what was once mystery. Thanks MI!

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I’m curious what you’re using S3 for?

‘m managing a few websites, and am trying to determine where S3 could benefit us.

I would guess that the gradual increase would indicate a nice flow of the creation of new paid accounts for your products as well as continued usage from existing customers. Pretty swell. Thanks for sharing!

I find it interesting that downloads have a far more steady rate of increas than the jumpyness of uploads. I think it makes sense, but its interesting. Also the upload to download ratio seems to have fallen… starting out with over 2 terabtyes downloaded for only .75 uploaded, but now its at 2.5/3.5.

Zach, your second observation is a function of your first. The ratio must change if the rates of change vary.

Anyway you can provide data showing the cost savings, but instead of $ use % ?

The April upload growth acceleration … probably a result of Backpack multiuser launch.

How do you resolve the problem with dabase when ec2 crash?