The use case is people who have a requirement to store data and probably never need to access it, either for reg requirements, or legal requirements, etc. In wh

The use case is people who have a requirement to store data and probably never need to access it, either for reg requirements, or legal requirements, etc. In which case paying a couple of hundred bucks for retrieval is fine, especially if they can access at a high level of granularity edit: Also as others have pointed out, Nearline is limited in retrieval time as well, so the cost difference isn't nearly as large.