That 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

That 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.