So, Amazon charges $0.10 for a gig of upload, but they charge $0.01 for 1,000 put commands. Jungle disk allows the OS to write to s3 like it's a regular drive. Both windows and mac OS write an empty file before writing a new file. This is an empty file still counts as a put.
To get to a point behind all this, the new data transfer rate dropped $0.10 per a gig, that gets you 10,000 put statements (per gig) before you reach the break even cost of uploading on the old plan and the new plan. Because of all the redundant put statements on my mac, my amazon bill is higher if I get 2,000 files per gig (using Jungle disk). In other words, my average file size is over 524 KB
If you were to use S3 browser, then you won't have this problem, and so your filesize limit would be 174KB instead.

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