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All the innovation at AWS is amazing. If they every stop charging by the Gigabyte for bandwidth and move to a flat model then I would be tempted to switch to them for all my sites.
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After reading those pages, I think you're wrong, and the $200 is actually per-device. For one thing, the documentation says you can use multiple Snowball devices, but carefully tiptoes around saying whether or not there's an extra charge for doing so. All of the language that actually talks about pricing just says "the device", singular. For another thing, the screenshots of the "create a job" workflow are missing an…
You can request multiple devices at once. I didn't include that screen in the blog post.
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AWS is the employee that sits there and learns the industry and every inch of the system you have for 5 years, and then one day you wake up and they're not at work. You read the news that morning and they just got 50 million to do their version of your company, and way better than yours. Or they start getting older, don't keep the skills sharp enough, and die off. Now you've got to painfully convince them to help you…
Hasn't really impacted Netflix and pretty much every other customer using AWS.
I was hoping somebody would bring up Netflix. Netflix is AWS's poster child and they know it. They need AWS still just as much as AWS needs them. The statement you just made proves that. They will do everything up to and including take a loss to keep Netflix around. I can assure you that your company will not be getting the same price quote or technical support that Netflix does unless they can bring them just as many sales by being a status symbol and marketing tool for them.
There seems to be a trend of people thinking "AWS is my friend". No. They are a company, and they exist to make money. Have we not all been bitten enough by this thought pattern and loyalty to learn the lesson of "stay flexible"? I'm not advocating that AWS is done away with entirely and nobody should use them ever. I'm advocating that putting your entire stack into their system is a bad idea and that using "black box" software as little as possible is a better approach. When it was just EC2 it was fine, you can build your stuff on an EC2 box with your favorite flavor of *nix and quickly throw boxes up elsewhere if things go south. Now I'm seeing companies put entire critical infrastructures off on Amazon pre built services like they've never seen a tech company go under, or a fad die, or strongarming with brute power.
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> You're not just paying for a pipe, you're paying for the corporation. You are paying their profit margin, yeah. It is wildly overpriced, no matter how you look at it. Operating costs even when done on a much smaller and more inefficient scale than for AWS do not make the total cost for incremental bandwidth usage THAT much larger.
What's the alternative?
All the innovation at AWS is amazing. If they every stop charging by the Gigabyte for bandwidth and move to a flat model then I would be tempted to switch to them for all my sites.
I used to work for an ISP that would juggle which peering links the usenet servers were favouring to make things more favourable :D
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Yep, all I could think was "Wow, that's a good deal fancier than a station wagon full of tapes". Cloud backup companies have had similar services for a while now, but it's nice to see AWS adopting it.
There was already a service where you could mail AWS removable hard disks and have them load it into S3 for you. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/
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I know Dell has glorified portable harddrive arrays in pelican styles cases for moving data between their SAN systems. Unfortunately I don't recall the name and I don't know if they are available for rental. If you have a Dell VAR, have them ask the Dell storage group. Edit: Correction, it doesn't appear to be an array, just single device so 1.5-2TB max. Also basically targeted at this SAN solution only.
Yeah, I need to move 20TB in one go - so i can repurpose the disks.
5 * 6TB drives, RAID5 would put you at nearly 24TB of storage, if my brain is in gear.
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Yeah, I need to move 20TB in one go - so i can repurpose the disks.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1515+#spec 5 * 6TB drives, RAID5 would put you at nearly 24TB of storage, if my brain is in gear.
He wants to avoid having to have to buy enough drives, etc, to hold all of the data at once
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Yea, we considered this - but if Amazon and Google compete with us I'll consider it a personal success :)
They compete against you whether they know you exist or not because your customers/prospects know Amazon/Google/etc exists. It only takes one of the large players to break the pricing stalemate, and overnight they'll all follow to keep their position in the market.