Edit: I did this calculation for the Dropbox migration out of S3 in this blog post: http://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-of-cloud-pricing.

Edit: I did this calculation for the Dropbox migration out of S3 in this blog post: http://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-of-cloud-pricing.html http://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-o... Short answer: The cost of just the hard drives to replace an $89MM S3 storage bill was about $45 million dollars. That's not including bandwidth, racks, datacenter space, administration etc etc.