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How are you planning to scale better than amazon s3 in terms of cost? If someone were to build an open source thin layer storage/backup client on top of s3 you

How are you planning to scale better than amazon s3 in terms of cost? If someone were to build an open source thin layer storage/backup client on top of s3 you would effectively be dead.

cperciva 19y ago
I'm not planning to compete with S3 on cost. I'm planning to compete with S3 on features -- an encrypted snapshotted backup system is vastly better than one which just copies files onto S3.
- boucher 19y ago
  But what prevents you from building an encrypted snapshot and storing it on S3?
  - cperciva 19y ago
    Nothing except code. Taking second snapshot and only storing the differences is a bit harder. Deleting the first snapshot while leaving the second snapshot intact is even harder.