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Aren't IOPS incredibly expensive on Glacier? There was that guy who paid $150 for a retrieval. https://medium.com/@karppinen/how-i-ended-up-paying-150-for-a-sin
by nickodell 10y ago
Aren't IOPS incredibly expensive on Glacier? There was that guy who paid $150 for a retrieval. https://medium.com/@karppinen/how-i-ended-up-paying-150-for-a-single-60gb-download-from-amazon-glacier-6cb77b288c3e https://medium.com/@karppinen/how-i-ended-up-paying-150-for-...
- qeternity 10y agoThat's the point. They aren't trying to sell IO with glacier, since they've already saturated that with EBS. They just want to sell the spare storage capacity, ideally in a write once read never use case. That way they can achieve 100% utilization out of the drives. So if you use a lot of IO with Glacier, they are going to charge you like crazy, since you're potentially impacting EBS customers.
- markonen 10y agoI'm that guy. I should update the post; Amazon "fixed" the retrieval fees in late 2016 and I would've paid less than a dollar had the current pricing scheme been in effect when I did the retrieval.