BigQuery with it's $20/TB for active, and half of the price for cold storage, is the best structured (eg: columns or JSON) solution where import and export is free. You even get SQL as the product is a data warehouse.
Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?
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#12Too big for my hard drives covers a lot of space.
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#13What is your tolerance for losing data?
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#14If you need that much storage, I would posit that cloud storage is going to be a problem not due to cost but due to network performance. A bunch of cheap storage is great but if it takes you days to transfer data there it might be a dealbreaker.
Have you considered a few external hard drives? You can get a couple of terabytes for pretty cheap these days.
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#15Wasabi is decently inexpensive at $.0059 per GB/month https://wasabi.com/ I currently use it as my personal cloud backup
i second wasabi, its API is compatible with AWS.
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#16s3 may be cheaper than you think. If you're willing to tolerate hr+ delays in accessing your data aws glacier deep archive is 70cents per terabyte month. that's pretty awesome in my book. If you need to access the data in under an hr it comes out around $2 per TB/mo
I am not sure if you are calculating this correctly but for me, 70 cent/TB/mo is not a realistic number.
Cheapest glacier storage for me, is, $0.004 per gb per mo, which makes a terabyte storage for $4/TB per mo.For me, this number is at Ohio or Oregon data centers. And their retrieval rates are super expensive, as in, $0.03 per gb.
Glacier might be cheap but it definitely is not the cheapest.
Re: Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?
#17s3 may be cheaper than you think. If you're willing to tolerate hr+ delays in accessing your data aws glacier deep archive is 70cents per terabyte month. that's pretty awesome in my book. If you need to access the data in under an hr it comes out around $2 per TB/mo
Glacier Deep Archive is $1/TB-month. Glacier is $4/TB-month, and both neither is cost effective for immediate or recurrent retrieval.
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#18Wasabi is decently inexpensive at $.0059 per GB/month https://wasabi.com/ I currently use it as my personal cloud backup
FWIW, mastodon.social has had frequent problems with the availability of Wasabi.
Re: Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?
#19Wasabi is decently inexpensive at $.0059 per GB/month https://wasabi.com/ I currently use it as my personal cloud backup
Keep in mind wasabi has a minimum retention perioid. So if you create a bucket and delete it you still have to keep paying.
Re: Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?
#20Wasabi is decently inexpensive at $.0059 per GB/month https://wasabi.com/ I currently use it as my personal cloud backup
FWIW, mastodon.social has had frequent problems with the availability of Wasabi.
I like Wasabi for the price and use it for my personal 4TB backup. I used Wasabi for company CCTV storage (100TB+) but switched to Azure Cold storage because of Wasabi availability issues.
I prefer Wasabi for my personal because I can use my own backup/encryption scripts (using rclone) instead of closed source service like CrashPlan.