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> Do the math sometime on what kind of bandwidth and storage capacity a large agency like NYPD 40,000 officers (rounded up) 8 hours of full HD video can be st
by Buttons840 6y ago
> Do the math sometime on what kind of bandwidth and storage capacity a large agency like NYPD
40,000 officers (rounded up)
8 hours of full HD video can be stored in 10 gigs of storage
do this 365 days a year for every officer
S3 standard costs less than 3 cents per gigabyte to store per month
result: about 50 million dollars to store 8 hours of FHD video of every officer every day for a year
The NYPD anual budget is 5 billion dollars. Thus, storing all this video would cost about 1% of the budget. I've made generous roundings in favor of overestimating this cost, and in reality it would be much less.
- davidf560 6y agoNow calculate how big of a data pipe you need to AWS to upload 400 terabytes of video each day and how much does that cost?
- Buttons840 6y agoI'm not proposing you store it on S3, but I used the price of S3 standard as a cost estimate. In reality I expect you could get the cost to be much less (I mean, even S3 standard is closer to 2 cents than the 3 cents I quoted) with on-premises storage. You also wouldn't need every minute of every video instantly available like you would get with S3 standard, further reducing costs. I had a hard time finding the bandwidth costs, but since you've done the math already, I'd like to hear what you came up with.
- henryfjordan 6y agoAWS has hard drives that they can send you empty and you fill em up and send them back for upload to S3. They even have semi trucks full of hard drives that will drive to you: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
- heavyset_go 6y agoIf you were storing large amounts of data on a budget, you'd be wasting a considerable amount of money on storage and bandwidth with S3.