Anyone considering putting giant amounts of data into AWS or most other big clouds should be sure to do the numbers on retrieval. All the big clouds have "roach

Anyone considering putting giant amounts of data into AWS or most other big clouds should be sure to do the numbers on retrieval. All the big clouds have "roach motel pricing" -- data is free or very cheap to put in, and expensive to get out. Outbound bandwidth costs from AWS are astronomical, so make sure you are not going to need to stream down all that data or move it any time soon or that you have compared that cost to your in-house solution.