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Managing the data and managing the infrastructure to host that data are very different problems. As discussed elsewhere in this this thread you can store 100 pe
by paxys 3y ago
Managing the data and managing the infrastructure to host that data are very different problems. As discussed elsewhere in this this thread you can store 100 petabytes of data in glacier for $1.2M/yr. That's literally the cost of 1-2 experienced engineers.
- prmoustache 3y ago1. chance is that such amount of data is not sitting alone. It is online to be accessed. So you can't just factor glacier as a single cost. 2. a datacenter doesn't require many employees, most of them not being engineers themselves. To get back to my remark on point 1, while managing your own datacenters just to host storage would be expensive, it is usually mutualized with the rest of the infrastructure you need to access and use the data. 3. colo datacenters
- vidarh 3y agoThat might be the cost of 1-2 experienced engineers in Silicon Valley. So don't host there. $1.2m is also for the Deep Archival storage class which has 12 hour retrieval times, and so competes with a handful of tape robots w/caching. It's not something you would have 1-2 experienced engineers spend full time managing - it's something you'd have remote hands and a support contract in place for, and your engineers spending a small fraction of their time managing.