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I have recently talked with a friend about a very cheap way to egress from AWS, at $2.5 per TB with the AWS lightsail $5 instance which include 2TB of egress pe

I have recently talked with a friend about a very cheap way to egress from AWS, at $2.5 per TB with the AWS lightsail $5 instance which include 2TB of egress per instance. This friend have extracted 200TB of backups for $500 instead of $17,000!

FlyingAvatar 7y ago
Reading this, I immediately thought: the cost has to go way down with 200TB of volume. It goes down, but only to $14,131.11! Nice find. I will file this away if I ever need to do a full remote recovery.
Elect2 7y ago
So where is your friend's data in? s3? ebs? I'm curious what is the cost to transfer data from s3/ec2 to Lightsail.
- js4ever 7y ago
  Mostly in S3 but S3/EC2 to lightsail is free within the same region :)
  - Elect2 7y ago
    I tried but seems aws has closed the door. To connect ec2 to Lightsail via private IP I have to create a "ec2-classic VPC" in ec2. But aws has disabled "ec2-classic VPC" in all regions
    - rbdeveloper 7y ago
      From what I know is that you can peer the Lightsail (AWS-managed) VPC with your normal, default EC2 VPC via the Lightsail console. Then you launch EC2 instances in the default VPC for the transfer
crazysim 7y ago
That's against Lightsail TOS, if you care.
- ValentineC 7y ago
  To save everyone else a lookup: > 66.3. You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g., proxying network traffic from Services to the public Internet or other destinations or excessive data processing through load balancing Services as described in the Documentation), and if you do, we may throttle or suspend your data services or suspend your account. Source: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- satanspastaroll 7y ago
  You can do it somewhat cheaper than direct upload with snowballs, at ~$33/TB (S3 + 80TB/$250 shipping), but it's still very pricey

FlyingAvatar 7y ago

Reading this, I immediately thought: the cost has to go way down with 200TB of volume. It goes down, but only to $14,131.11! Nice find. I will file this away if I ever need to do a full remote recovery.

Elect2 7y ago

So where is your friend's data in? s3? ebs? I'm curious what is the cost to transfer data from s3/ec2 to Lightsail.

js4ever 7y ago
Mostly in S3 but S3/EC2 to lightsail is free within the same region :)
- Elect2 7y ago
  I tried but seems aws has closed the door. To connect ec2 to Lightsail via private IP I have to create a "ec2-classic VPC" in ec2. But aws has disabled "ec2-classic VPC" in all regions
  - rbdeveloper 7y ago
    From what I know is that you can peer the Lightsail (AWS-managed) VPC with your normal, default EC2 VPC via the Lightsail console. Then you launch EC2 instances in the default VPC for the transfer

crazysim 7y ago

That's against Lightsail TOS, if you care.

ValentineC 7y ago
To save everyone else a lookup: > 66.3. You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g., proxying network traffic from Services to the public Internet or other destinations or excessive data processing through load balancing Services as described in the Documentation), and if you do, we may throttle or suspend your data services or suspend your account. Source: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
satanspastaroll 7y ago
You can do it somewhat cheaper than direct upload with snowballs, at ~$33/TB (S3 + 80TB/$250 shipping), but it's still very pricey