Backblaze did the math a few years ago and found that Amazon S3 was about 24x more expensive than building their own pods, for an estimated pod lifetime of abou

Backblaze did the math a few years ago and found that Amazon S3 was about 24x more expensive than building their own pods, for an estimated pod lifetime of about 3 years: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-...