Paying for the petabyte future, one gigabyte at a time

Cloud storage is easy, but if you’ve got a lot of data, the costs can escalate quickly.

Case in point: DNAnexus, a startup that is storing DNA data so researchers can access and analyze it through a web interface, is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its applications, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store data.

The company now has half a petabyte of data stored in the cloud, at a cost of … Continue Reading