Amazon are celebrating 3 years of Simpe Storage Service this month and have announced that they will offer 3 months of reduced prices, for ‘transfer-in‘

From Amazon:

” Three years ago this month, Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as “storage for the internet,” providing “highly scalable, reliable, low-latency storage at very low costs.” Since that time, Amazon S3 has experienced dramatic growth, expanded into Europe, and lowered pricing multiple times as we’ve been able to achieve ever greater economies of scale and pass them on to our customers. Today, the service has grown to store over 52 billion objects and serve over 1 trillion requests per year from customers in over 90 countries. Whether you’ve used Amazon S3 to back up files, host static website content, securely share files with your external business partners, or store scientific, financial, or website data for processing via Amazon EC2, you’ve contributed to this growth.“

“Transfer In” is the charge for uploading your material to Amazon Simple Storage Service and it typically costs just 10cents per gigabyte. As part of their birthday celebrations this has been reduced to just 3 cents per gigabyte

Is that a 70% saving?