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Amazon doesn’t market S3 as a replacement for file systems, that’s why EBS exists. Also, is S3 really “very expensive”? Relative to what?

• vbezhenar 3y ago
  S3 usually is the cheapest storage, not only for Amazon, but for other clouds. I don’t understand why.
  • ForHackernews 3y ago
    This is not true in my experience https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing
    • kiwijamo 3y ago
      That Backblaze page (not surprisingly) compares their prices to a fairly expensive S3 pricing tier and makes other assumptions in Blackblaze's favour. For some use cases B2 is more expensive e.g. one copy of my backups goes to AWS Deep Glacier which is really cheap.
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