There are many different cloud providers available on the internet these days. On top of that, there are also different pricing options available from most of these cloud providers. One of these pricing models is known as on demand pricing.
What is on demand pricing? On demand pricing for cloud service providers is the pricing rate at which a given service is priced during the time period in which the service is used. A pre-negotiated contract is not required to receive on demand pricing for these services.
Cloud based services, especially databases, can be cost effective when compared to self managed and self hosted services when considering all of the operational overhead, redundant power, redundant networking, support and maintenance required to host and maintain them. But can a service like Amazon DynamoDB which provides all of these features really be free to use?
AWS Dynamo DB has an always free use tier that provides customers with 25GB of Storage, 25 provisioned Write Capacity Units and 25 provisioned Read Capacity Units per month at zero cost. This is enough free usage for 200 million requests per month.
When looking into database options available from Amazon Web Services, one interesting option is Amazon DynamoDB. At first glance, it is quite different from traditional SQL Databases, so new users may want to know what is Amazon DynamoDB used for?
Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database and is used for storing an unlimited amount of unstructured key value or document-like data. Usage examples include user data stores, metadata caches, graph relationship stores, game states, leaderboards, user event streams, and many others.
What is the difference between blob and file storage?
The Azure Storage service is a useful cloud service that enables users to store massive amounts of data. However, there are different styles of this storage service that apply to different situations.
Azure Blob Storage is an object store used for storing vast amounts unstructured data, while Azure File Storage is a fully managed distributed file system based on the SMB protocol and looks like a typical hard drive once mounted.
When using Amazon Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3 for short, most users want to get an idea of what the storage costs might be for storing their data with this service. Especially when they have a decent amount of data to store, for example 1TB.
In the AWS S3 US East Region (North Virginia) using standard storage, the first 50 terabytes will have a per terabyte cost of $23.55 USD per month. The next 450TB of storage will have a per terabyte cost of $23.53 USD per month. Every terabyte after that is an additional $21.50 USD per month.
An Amazon S3 storage bucket is the top level storage container of the Amazon Simple Storage Service. It is used to keep a group of project related objects, or files, together in a single location. You can think of it similarly to a hard drive, except with virtually unlimited storage capacity.
