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Isn‘t exporting 600TB of data from aws ridicously expensive?

• deleted 8y ago
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• asaddhamani 8y ago
  600TB would come out to around $50000 which for Twitter is peanuts. This is their bandwidth pricing though but I guess they'd use snowmobile export (if that exists?) instead.
  • gervase 8y ago
    For reference, 300PB (the amount referenced in the article) using the same pricing would cost $25M. Still might be a reasonable one-time cost for migration for a large corporation, though, even disregarding the "bulk" rates they'd see at that scale.
    • teej 8y ago
      AWS Snowmobile cost is $0.005/GB per month which comes out to $1.5M/month for 300PB for however long the data is on the truck.
• detaro 8y ago
  Twitters number is in PB, not TB. At that scale, assume that none of the normal pricing and procedures apply.