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I would assume (and hope) that a company of that scale is using something like Glacier to hold rarely accessed data, so that storage fees aren't incurred on hav
by fein 12y ago
I would assume (and hope) that a company of that scale is using something like Glacier to hold rarely accessed data, so that storage fees aren't incurred on having it in a hot cache.
- SwellJoe 12y agoNetflix could not use Glacier for rarely accessed films, unless they wanted to impose a watching schedule on their users (i.e. "Bananas is only available on weekends", or similar, and even then, that'd impose even higher fees to move things out of Glacier and onto some other kind of storage). Glacier takes minutes to hours to retrieve files (I'm guessing hours in the case or large movie files). Just because it is "rarely accessed", doesn't mean it doesn't need to be available quickly when it is accessed. And, Glacier is priced for data that is moved in and almost never moved out to other types of storage.
- fein 12y agoI was not aware it would take that long to pull data out of Glacier. You learn new things every day :)
- autokad 12y agothat really wouldnt work. wait 4 hours to see what you wanted to see? for backup sure, but not for what they need to show customers