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Fact check: The cost of S3 standard storage per TB is approximately $23 not $153. S3 standard storage, the most expensive kind, is $.021-.023 per GB. S4 costs about the same as S3 Deep Archive storage. Update: The article appears to be a joke. That aside, there are no cost savings against S3 Deep Archive; additionally S3 Deep Archive supports restores unlike the write-only S4.
Appears to be a joke? LOL
2. Click the buy buttons and then read carefully.
Super Simple Storage Service, huh.
Opinion: This was posted ~10 days late.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe someone should to an Ask HN: what happens when you request your S3 glacier data. I use it, but frankly it seems more like a protection racket given the costs of getting anything out of there.
Test your backups. Read time for me has been measured in minutes or sub hour, but the data isn’t huge.
I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the inter…
Confused for a second till I saw "Write-Only storage". Obviously, they should include "Trash bin" in the pricing comparison table.
I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the inter…
Plus, when you’re done writing your data, you’ll have a fancy drink coaster!
This comment started as a joke and now I’m genuinely thinking about it; also from the disk usage claims which make it clear they’re not storing the data, would a service like require a BAA? It’d have to be encrypted at rest, so assuming that was true, and assuming that the data actually got stored (presumably as cold storage) I’m thinking it’d still require BAAs…
I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the inter…
Since we have multiple points of data for lifespan, perhaps we should be computing a weighted average between them? Going by gut feel: 3-5 years sounds like "pretty likely", let's give that 95% of the weight, at 4 years for simplicity. 10-20 years would be nice, but really, how much tech lasts that long? Not much. How about 4.9999999% at 15 years. And the remaining can go to "indefinitely", which seems pretty darn un…
The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.