This is interesting, then data would be two orders of magnitude cheaper than the rest of a transaction. By my calculations, this would allow storing a 2 GB movie at about $2.00 vs more like $1,000 today. Seems about reasonable. Amazon S3 Glacier is about 1 penny per year, but that's with access speed measured in hours as I'm guessing AWS stores the info on "cold" hard drives which normally have their power turned off except a couple times per year or less when a query is made. I don't think this includes the access (transactions) either, but I could be wrong.
This is interesting, then data would be two orders of magnitude cheaper than the rest of a transaction. By my calculations, this would allow storing a 2 GB movie at about $2.00 vs more like $1,000 today. Seems about reasonable. Amazon S3 Glacier is about 1 penny per year, but that's with access speed measured in hours as I'm guessing AWS stores the info on "cold" hard drives which normally have their power turned off except a couple times per year or less when a query is made. I don't think this includes the access (transactions) either, but I could be wrong.