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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.
Another example of an overpriced cloud service when a faster and cheaper solution is right in your CLI in the form of /dev/null which provides an equivalent service without the network latency and the bills!
Another example of an overpriced cloud service when a faster and cheaper solution is right in your CLI in the form of /dev/null which provides an equivalent service without the network latency and the bills!
Another example of an overpriced cloud service when a faster and cheaper solution is right in your CLI in the form of /dev/null which provides an equivalent service without the network latency and the bills!
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 this is a write-only service, it doesn't actually matter if the disk stops working, or even ceases to exist. Therefore we may be able to estimate the lifespan as infinite. There may also be no need to purchase more than one disk. In fact taken to its logical conclusion there is no need to purchase any disk at all - but of course that brings us all the way to the S4 business model itself.