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Glacier pricing is cheap only if you don't need to access it quickly. Glacier pricing is surprisingly complicated, and the actual cost can be much higher t
by panarky 11y ago
Glacier pricing is cheap only if you don't need to access it quickly.
Glacier pricing is surprisingly complicated, and the actual
cost can be much higher than $0.01 per GB-month if you don't
read the fine print.
The biggest gotcha is that you can only access 0.17% of the data
you've stored in any given day without extra charges. So if you've
stored 1000 GB, you can only access 1.7 GB per day for free.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9184466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9184466
- skuhn 11y agoI think the math for Glacier actually gets a lot simpler if you look at it this way: Glacier is only cost effective if you never want to access that data ever again. There are actually use cases like this, when you will almost certainly never want to restore this data, but just in case you put it in Glacier. For anything that you expect to ever reasonably want to restore in a reasonable timeframe (like a MySQL database backup), it just doesn't make sense: it's too slow and too expensive.
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