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Wow, does it really cost 4-5x more to download a 1 GB file from S3 or Google Cloud Storage than it does to store it for a month? That is mind-blowing.

• qvrjuec 7y ago
  Bandwidth is expensive, storage is cheap.
  • asdfman123 7y ago
    Amazon Snowball, if I understand it correctly, is a box full of hard drives that they mail you to transfer data. So no bandwidth there. It still costs $0.03/GB, which is on top of the $200 they charge you to use the service.
  • throwaway2048 7y ago
    cloud providers charge a lot more for bandwidth yes, but in reality bandwidth is much, much cheaper than storage for them to provide.
  • dx034 7y ago
    Not with smaller cloud providers or colocation centers.