Amazon S3 has a more competitive outgoing bandwidth pricing. That works out best for me (lots of small files with small overall storage size but consume lots of bandwidth).
You need to ask yourself, what is your main use case? More often than not, if your use case is a web service serving up files over HTTP then Amazon is more competitive. I would say bandwidth would be the greater consideration in most cases for web services.
Even S3 outgoing price are ridiculously expensive for any kind of significant bandwidth use, that's what CDN are for (and in that area, cloudfront is really not cheap either).
I'm a fan of AWS and use a lot of their services, but their bandwith price from them to the outside world are far from the best deal (of course if your bandwith is still calculated in the hundreds of dollars this doesn't apply/matter much).
I know you weren't saying the contrary, but still I wanted to point it out.
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Amazon S3 has a more competitive outgoing bandwidth pricing. That works out best for me (lots of small files with small overall storage size but consume lots of bandwidth).
You need to ask yourself, what is your main use case? More often than not, if your use case is a web service serving up files over HTTP then Amazon is more competitive. I would say bandwidth would be the greater consideration in most cases for web services.
All of their comparison calculations (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/...) also include "AWS Gold Support" (which costs an extra $400+/month).
Even S3 outgoing price are ridiculously expensive for any kind of significant bandwidth use, that's what CDN are for (and in that area, cloudfront is really not cheap either). I'm a fan of AWS and use a lot of their services, but their bandwith price from them to the outside world are far from the best deal (of course if your bandwith is still calculated in the hundreds of dollars this doesn't apply/matter much).
I know you weren't saying the contrary, but still I wanted to point it out.