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This should be mitigated if you're running a service, though. It averages out.
by jychang 13y ago
This should be mitigated if you're running a service, though. It averages out.
- wmf 13y agoGlacier retrieval pricing has a strange and un-Amazony economy of scale. If you're just backing up your own data you'll be charged a ZOMG huge amount to ever download it. But if you're backing up 100 people you pay nothing to get data back.
- _delirium 13y agoYeah, I wasn't expecting to find it here. This style of pricing isn't entirely unreasonable, and you do find charges based on peak monthly usage elsewhere (it's reminiscent of 95th-percentile bandwidth pricing, for example). But AWS otherwise has pretty straightforward pricing based on micro-accounting of usage, so this seems atypical for them.