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Azure, AWS, Google cloud all pay less for data that gets accessed regularly. Google Cloud charges $0.02 / month for each gigabyte of storage, but if you store
by s3p 3y ago
Azure, AWS, Google cloud all pay less for data that gets accessed regularly.
Google Cloud charges $0.02 / month for each gigabyte of storage, but if you store it in an infrequently accessed volume you can qualify for special pricing of $0.0012 / GB / month. That's a 177% difference in storage costs for cold storage vs hot storage.
So yeah, it's MUCH cheaper to store it in infrequently accessed volumes. And stopping people from finding the oldest videos allows them to do that.
- matteoraso 3y agoAccording to Google Cloud, archival storage is only meant to be accessed once a year at most. Even infrequently watched videos should be considered hot (i.e. likely to be accessed more than once a month).