Linode Launches Free S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
Summary
Linode, the world’s largest independent cloud provider, is offering free S3-compatible object storage to new and existing customers from March 1, 2020, through May 31, 2020. Traditional S3-compatible options seem affordable on the surface, but hide high transfer fees which can balloon cloud infrastructure bills. “We use Linode Object Storage to deliver global elevation data to our customers at cents on the dollar compared to alternatives,” said Luke Seelenbinder, founder, Stadia Maps. Like other products Linode released in the past, customer demand will help the company accelerate the roll out of object storage to its other data centers around the world. However, high transfer costs have been an impediment to wider adoption of object storage, especially among small and medium sized businesses for which managing higher amounts of unstructured data has become critical.