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+-   Amazon S3 Twist: Make People Pay To Access Data-> on Monday January 05 2009, @05:49PM CWmike

Submitted by CWmike on Monday January 05 2009, @05:49PM
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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? IT workers, argues Mark Everett Hall in How SaaS hurts a fragile IT economy."
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