Take the tour ×  I want to know which will cost more, s3 or ec2.
I need to know by example to estimate my future payments.  Also
which of them will be better for an image hosting website?
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constructive by SvW, Tom O'Connor, Ben Pilbrow, Iain, Ward Dec 4
'11 at 18:19   3 Answers  You can also use the AWS calculator,
plug in your projected loads and un-toggle the 'free for a year'
checkbox to get a truthful number.  As mentioned, EC2 and S3 are
completely different - S3 is meant to serve as a file service
supplement for your site resources.  In the bigger picture,
you'd use EC2 to run the website - but if your site was big
enough (100's of gigabytes) it'd be a good idea to consider S3
since it will scale better for system upgrades (Less MTTR, less
backup space used).  AWS will also be a bit more graceful than
an intensely loaded EBS backed site in terms of static data
serving.  share|improve this answer add comment  These services
are not the same.  S3 is a