Rackspace Reduces Data Transfer Prices

Rackspace has announced a price reduction of 33% across their data transfer costs and a new tiered pricing model for their Cloud Files object storage offering (comparable to AWS S3):

Rackspace's new tiered storage costs

Previously, Rackspace charged a flat rate of $0.10 per GB per month, therefore this pricing model is designed to make it cheaper as you scale with Rackspace. As always, Rackspace gives customers completely free IOPS and transaction requests (READ, WRITE, PUT etc).

If you are considering AWS S3 vs Rackspace Cloud Files, you can use PlanForCloud to compare the costs. PlanForCloud is a free cloud cost forecasting tool that enables you to simulate and forecast future cloud costs.

-- Hassan Hosseini
Product manager at PlanForCloud