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I meant more monetary cost. Nominally cloud storage for one unit of storage and one unit of time is perfectly "fine". Except that it adds up. More storage, inde

by creer 2y ago

I meant more monetary cost. Nominally cloud storage for one unit of storage and one unit of time is perfectly "fine". Except that it adds up. More storage, indefinitely held, multiple hosts. Data which needs to be copied from one to the other which incurs costs from both. Add to this routine retrieval costs - if you "live this way". And routine test retrieval costs if you know what's good for you. So last time I looked, unit costs were low - sure. But all-included costs were high.

onethumb 2y ago
Certainly some of this simply comes down to "how valuable is my data?". Currently, given the extremely low (and dropping YoY) cost of storing cold data at rest, the essentially free cost of ingest, and the high cost of retrieving cold data which I almost never have to do, the ROI is wildly positive. For me. And since all of these things (how many providers, which providers, which storage classes, how long to retain the data, etc) are all fine-tunable, you can basically do your own ROI math, then pick the parameters which work for you.