Amazon S3 + Cloudfront notes

Basic Amazon S3 storage estimates without content delivery network. (all rates are per month)


Moderate usage: 

Storage: 100GB
Reduced Redundancy: 0GB
Data Transfer In: 50GB
Data Transfer Out: 900GB
PUT/COPY/POST/LIST Requests: 100K
GET + others: 1 million

Total:
Asia Pacific (Singapore): $182.39/mo
US-East: $119.46/mo

Conservative: 

Storage: 10GB
Reduced Redundancy: 0GB
Data Transfer In: 5GB
Data Transfer Out: 500GB
PUT/COPY/POST/LIST Requests: 100K
GET + others: 100K

Total:
Asia Pacific (Singapore): $95.14
US-East: $59.31/mo


Very Conservative:  (Initial and testing)

Storage: 5GB
Reduced Redundancy: 0GB
Data Transfer In: 2.5GB
Data Transfer Out: 100GB
PUT/COPY/POST/LIST Requests: 100K
GET + others: 100K

Total:
Asia Pacific:  $17.61/mo
US-East: $10.68/mo




*Also "PUT/COPY/POST" rates apply if an Amazon CDN is used


References:

Amazon's calculator
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html?key=a-simple-3-tier-web-app

Optimization tips:
http://www.admon.org/5-tips-on-amazon-s3-hosting-optimization/
http://www.lalit.org/lab/setting-cache-headers-files-in-amazon-s3/

Kevin McKillop's tutorial on setting up S3 and cloudfront:
http://www.freedomtarget.com/how-to-use-amazon-s3-cloudfront-for-video