Celebrating 3 Years of Amazon S3 with 3 Months of Transfer-In for 3 Cents/GB

Man, S3 is 3 years old already? I'm not sure whether to feel old or wonder where those years went. Feels like they launched just last year.

Since the gigabit+ links they are paying for are symmetric, that is, they can move the same amount of data in both directions, I will make the assumption that Amazon's "outbound" traffic is less than their "inbound" and thus, an increase of inbound up to a certain point costs them nothing.

Also, transfer-in means that in order to get any use out of it, you now have to transfer-out (another charge).

Not being critical, just pointing out that this is a bit of a "give the razor for free, sell the razor blades" strategy.

   We’ll be offering “data transfer in” to Amazon S3 for only
   $0.03 per GB (vs. the standard $0.10) for 3 months, April through June. 

I wonder if its $.03 for everyone, or just for those that transfer more than 150TB/mo(@.1/gb).

This could be a significant boost to backup companies that use S3, as they probably have way more transfer in than out.

I hope this isn't an April Fool's joke!