Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay

CWmike writes "Amazon.com has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data owners shift the cost of accessing their information to users. Until now, individuals or businesses with information stored on S3 had to pay data-transfer costs to Amazon when others made use of the information. Amazon said the new Requester Pays option relieves data providers of that burden, leaving them to pay only the basic storage fees for the cloud computing service. The bigger question with the cloud is, who really pays? Mark Everett Hall argues that IT workers do."

You Insensitive Clods!

[PPH]

Nobody wants to look at the data I've stored. Not even myself.

Re:You Insensitive Clods!

[CannonballHead]

I think you mean, "you insensitive clouds."

Re:we're supposed to cry foul?

[PlainWhiteTrash]

I love that word pernicious... I've started naming all my servers after nasty p-words. pernicious, persnickety, pugnacious...