I know this question came up lot of time on the internet , But I couldn't find any latest updates on this . So I gathered the information what I found and putting here and have few questions on it . Could some one please answer them ?
Some note :- I am using other third party provider for my website ( social networking website) and going to use amazon or rackspace for photo uploading and for storing all my static content .
Number of Locations :- Amazon I see 40 locations world wide CDN centers from their website . http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ . Rackspace uses 213 of Akamai's edge locations.
Customer support :- Amazon ,we have to pay extra 100$ for customer support . Rackspace it comes with free
Folder Structure :- Amazon has good folder structure management , we can create buckets and use them . But Rackspace lacks this feature
Free Ties :- Amazon has free tier where we can use register it for free and use it . But rackspace on the other hand I couldn't find any free tire to use it .AM I missing any thing here ..
Price :- This is where I am getting confused . I heard amazon charges less , But after using their website and doing calculation I got some thing different results . Could some one throw some light If I am missing some thing ?
RackSpace price :- 172.88
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files/pricing/
amazon price :- 282.55 ( Plus 100$ for support)
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
Please see the screen shot below .My calculation is for 500 GB storage and 1024 GB Out per month