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I've had some big Glacier bills in the past, even the upload pricing has gotchas[1] These days the infrequent access storage method is probably better for most
by slyall 11y ago
I've had some big Glacier bills in the past, even the upload pricing has gotchas[1]
These days the infrequent access storage method is probably better for most people. It is about 50% more than Glacier (but still 40% of normal S3 cost) but is a lot closer in pricing structure to standard S3.
Only use glacier if you spend a lot of time working out your numbers and are really sure your use case won't change.
[1] - 5 cents per 1000 requests adds with with a lot of little files.
- wallacoloo 11y agoI use Infrequent Access Storage for backups, through a tool called duplicity (or more aptly, I use a GUI front-end for that tool called Deja Dup). Instead of uploading every individual file, it gathers them into 25 mb .tar files & uploads those along with an index describing where each actual file is. That has made the requests negligible for me.
- slyall 11y agoWe combined the files too. And then a customer wanted all their files rather than just one or two. Although that was billed back to the them.