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Since I'm not that familiar with the pricing model behind this, did I understand correctly that it costs roughly $1/TB/month to store and roughly $95/TB to rest
by Etheryte 4y ago
Since I'm not that familiar with the pricing model behind this, did I understand correctly that it costs roughly $1/TB/month to store and roughly $95/TB to restore? The price seems steep at first, but comparing it to regular backup services where the cost usually adds up to roughly $100 per year it starts to make sense. I have backups but I don't think I would ever need them more than once a year, even that would be alarmingly often.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoThe price is not steep at all. This is a last resort solution, when all your other backups have failed and you need to retrieve your data. The idea is that you never need to restore it.
- hampereddustbin 4y agoThe backup and store service is cheap, general outgoing bandwidth is very non-trivial as it also applies to every other service in AWS; It's designed to keep your data in and heavily discourage multi-cloud
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- speed_spread 4y agoGlacier's primary business use is not as a backup solution but as a regulatory compliance tool. The idea is that you can guarantee regulatory bodies that whatever historical data that needed by law to be kept for x years has been preserved based on AWS' own claims of persistence.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoI can totally believe that, but I meant in the context of this post and what the OP is presenting.
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