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The root problem here is , that Amazon Glacier is as opaque as mud about pricing. Or did the words "Starting At" not pique your buzzword bullshit detector? It c
by kefka 9y ago
The root problem here is , that Amazon Glacier is as opaque as mud about pricing. Or did the words "Starting At" not pique your buzzword bullshit detector? It certainly did mine.
Pricing means sifting through a legalese dense block of text to try to come up with even a way to estimate the costs. That is a problem. I should be given a rough cost expectation up front. Sure, it's not going to be exact and all, but This article is about a cost factor of *180.. That's the difference between an iPad and a Ferrari.
Other places of varying types of backup systems are a lot more clearer to tell how much I should be expected to pay. Or at least, I get within +/- 10%. Glacier? "Yeah, Don't worry about it till we bill ya!" That's the scam with all these cloud services really. Once we have your nuts in a vice, we can squeeze and extract, cause you don't have any other choice, now do you?
- klodolph 9y agoI think the information you're working with might be out of date, I don't see the words "starting at" anywhere. Glacier egress pricing is $0.01 per GB and $0.05 per 1,000 requests. That's for standard retrievals. Not so complicated. Before Feb 2017, it did work with the peak hourly request fees. Those were well documented. Apparently peak transfer rates were "confusing". I didn't think so, after all, that's similar to how I pay for internet access at home (I pay based on capacity, not based on bytes transferred).