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This often disregards the cost of retrieving said data, which is at $90/TB for outboud network traffic on top of the costs of making the backups available.
by hampereddustbin 4y ago
This often disregards the cost of retrieving said data, which is at $90/TB for outboud network traffic on top of the costs of making the backups available.
- tokamak-teapot 4y agoThis doesn’t disregard that. It lays it out with some nice numbers so that it’s clear. It’s much appreciated. I’m very happy to pay USD 200 if I ever need to retrieve a last chance backup. If I just want the data in no rush I can trickle it back over 20 months for free.
- hampereddustbin 4y agoOutbound traffic costs always cost the same regardless of your retrieval speed to API. If you only have a couple TBs worth of high-value data, this may be acceptable to you. It's far from being a universal truth though.
- mrich 4y agoBut you get 100 GiB/month free download :)
- hampereddustbin 4y agoDownloading backups for a decade is untenable
- Aachen 4y ago100 GiB per month for a decade... how many terabytes of irreplaceable pictures have you got? But, yeah, making use of a free service loophole, it taking ten months for a terabyte, and presuming you're using zero other Amazon services that count towards your free trial amount, I agree with you it's a stretch. But if you're really cheap or hate Amazon with a passion (but not enough not to host with them) it's not that far fetched.