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Great PR! How much does it cost to store 1 exabyte on S3? 1 exabyte = 1,000,000,000 GB Cost of storage 1GB on S3 in us-west-2 = $0.024 That's 24 millions do
by nside 9y ago
Great PR!
How much does it cost to store 1 exabyte on S3?
1 exabyte = 1,000,000,000 GB
Cost of storage 1GB on S3 in us-west-2 = $0.024
That's 24 millions dollars. What am I missing?
- sudhirj 9y agoDon't think that's disingenuous, if that's what you're implying. Companies that have an exabyte of data usually know how much it's costing them to have it.
- Dunedan 9y agoFun fact: Using any other public US AWS region would save 3 million dollars per month! Aside from that: Using infrequent access storage for the parts of the data which don't get frequently accessed would save a lot and I'm pretty sure at that scale AWS would be happy to discuss possible discounts as well.
- Jweb_Guru 9y ago> What am I missing? Nothing. Any query processing on sufficiently large amounts of data is going to be expensive in time, space, energy, and money, and Amazon doesn't buy custom hardware for this purpose and intends to make a profit doing it so it's going to be even more expensive.
- manigandham 9y agoAn exabyte is an incredible amount of data. It will always cost millions of dollars to store it safely.