I'm not entirely sure I'm reading this correctly (because Amazon pricing is so ridiculously confusing) but I think you are reading the prices to get data out of

I'm not entirely sure I'm reading this correctly (because Amazon pricing is so ridiculously confusing) but I think you are reading the prices to get data out of Glacier and into an EC2 instance (which is still inside Amazon). THEN you get charged an additional 9 cents/GByte to get it out of EC2 and downloaded onto your laptop. At Backblaze, we cannot figure out the business case of why Amazon prices things so that the small customers get really expensive prices (9 cents/GByte for less than 10 TBytes), and as the volume increases the price drops to 5 cents/GByte (for 250 TBytes). It makes no business sense to drive away small companies. A byte is a byte, the WHOLE POINT of a large cloud storage farm like Backblaze B2 or Amazon S3 is that we bundle together 200,000 small customers and together they get the economy of scale of a large customer! That's the whole point, the whole strategy! And what Backblaze has seen over and over again is that over time, some of our small customers became really gigantic customers. So driving away the small customers by gouging them on price means the small customers go to some other provider, then they get large with the other provider. But hey, I'm just thankful Amazon thinks this is good for them because it leaves the market wide open for Backblaze to gobble up all the small customers (which we are really super happy to have as customers).