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I don't understand. B2 is currently about half the cost of S3 for outbound data and 1/4 the cost for data at rest. What do you mean "stay competitive?"
by teach 9y ago
I don't understand. B2 is currently about half the cost of S3 for outbound data and 1/4 the cost for data at rest.
What do you mean "stay competitive?"
- plantain 9y agoThey're not equivalent. B2 is singly homed.
- liquidgecka 9y agoSo is S3. You have to pick the region (home) for the data when you create the bucket.
- gamegoblin 9y agoFrom https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ and https://aws.amazon.com/s3/details/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/details/ Data is automatically distributed across a minimum of three physical facilities that are geographically separated by at least 10 kilometers within an AWS Region Designed for 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year. Designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities. From https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html Uptime: 99.9% SLA Reliability: 99.999999% durability So S3 is 10x more available, 1000x more durable, and datacenter redundant.
- shawn-furyan 9y agoEleven 9s of durability is an utterly farcical guarantee from a decade old service. A single big durability event in the next century would irrevocably decimate that record. They really might as well claim 100% durability, because it is no less plausible. I mean, what are the odds that S3 will even be operating in 100 years? I'll certainly put $1 against $1,000,000,000 that it won't, and that's only one many ways it could fail the standard.
- xhrpost 9y agoI mean that prices in the cloud space tend to drop regularly, they can't stay at this price point forever.
- dna_polymerase 9y agoBut why would they lower prices now? They are already the cheapest.
- sp332 9y agoxhrpost said "eventually". Not now.