On: Ask HN: What's up with all these services charging $10/$15 a month?

[wwortiz]

Personally I think of it as a value added markup as a good thing.

Using S3 would cost me more per month unless I implemented a similar system to tarsnap.

[tptacek → wwortiz]

Seeing how Amazon's whole business model is basically to commoditize storage (and cycles and database queries) and drive prices as low as possible, their price per gigabyte seems like a very dangerous star for Colin to hitch his wagon to.