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Re: Filecoin, StorJ and the problem with decentralized storage (2019)

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Post by jfrunyon » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 9:20 AM UTC

gruez wrote: post #70

admax88q wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What do you base AWS storage having "an enormous markup" on? Probably on the basis that backblaze costs an order of magnitude less for the same product.

AFAIK s3 is multi datacenter whereas B2 is only one.

And you pay S3's markup for every datacenter you want your data to be stored in, plus AWS's network markup for the transfer between those datacenters, do you not?

Re: Filecoin, StorJ and the problem with decentralized storage (2019)

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Post by 300bps » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 6:16 PM UTC

jfrunyon wrote: post #121

gruez wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK s3 is multi datacenter whereas B2 is only one.

And you pay S3's markup for every datacenter you want your data to be stored in, plus AWS's network markup for the transfer between those datacenters, do you not?

S3 has lots of options. If you don't want multiple availability zones (which is having multiple copies in multiple datacenters) you can use S3 One Zone-IA.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Re: Filecoin, StorJ and the problem with decentralized storage (2019)

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Post by jfrunyon » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 10:03 PM UTC

300bps wrote: post #122

jfrunyon wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you pay S3's markup for every datacenter you want your data to be stored in, plus AWS's network markup for the transfer between those datacenters, do you not?

S3 has lots of options. If you don't want multiple availability zones (which is having multiple copies in multiple datacenters) you can use S3 One Zone-IA. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

I was replying to a comment which used AWS having multiple datacenters as a benefit over Backblaze which only has one. If your data is only in one datacenter either way, then does it really matter if a particular provider only has one datacenter?