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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
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[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Amazon's S3 charges roughly $0.025 per GB

For storage or for download?

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Download. It's also rounded up. Storage is negligible compared to bandwidth, especially considering Steam's business model

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

And their cost is going down over time while their revenues are increasing since they take a % off every sales and sales are increasing and so is the average price of games.