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The pricing is actually no longer identical. Amazon's latest price refreshes dropped Glacier to below Nearline and introduced a new S3 object type (e.g. Reduced
by crazysim 11y ago
The pricing is actually no longer identical. Amazon's latest price refreshes dropped Glacier to below Nearline and introduced a new S3 object type (e.g. Reduced Redundancy Storage) called Infrequent Access that's a lot more like Nearline.
- sandstrom 11y agoI like the new Infrequent Access, but I'd like to understand the tradeoffs better. What's the downside compared to regular S3? It mentions 99.9% availability instead of 99.99%, but it would be useful to understand how that is manifested in reality, and what the underlying architectural difference is. I tried to ask jeffbarr here[1], but got no answer. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230937
- milesward 11y agodisclaimer: I am OP and work at GCP. Watch out for minimum file size on Standard-IA: it's 128kb, and if you write a file smaller than that they round up. It's little gotchas like this that can really burn you...
- jeffbarr 11y agoSorry I missed that, I have been working 16+ hours per day to get ready for re:Invent.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoPlease take a break when you can!