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		cperciva on March 9, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tarsnap reaches profitability From what I see, you could host this on AWS and be "profitable" with just one customer, right? If EC2 instances were free, sure. :-)

ryanwaggoner on March 10, 2009 [–]

I'm assuming you're using S3 for storage, right? And the pricing for S3 is less than your pricing, so where's your additional marginal cost? Is it just an EC2 instance to handle the requests? Still seems like a really low threshold...

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