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Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by brightball »

cyberferret wrote: post #5

(*) for a particular use case. The example is 200GB storage with 2000GB data transfer (out) every month. That's a LOT of data going out every month, so I am guessing the scenario is if you are hosting a photo library and lots of people are downloading every month. If however you are just using the service as an online storage to hold Not knocking either service - I actually use both, for different use cases.

It's difficult to use with speculative numbers too. I recently compared Imgix and Cloudinary for use in front of an origin server and the numbers that we projected with made Imgix look 3x more expensive. When we put it against real usage, Imgix was actually 1/4 the price of Cloudinary.

It's difficult, sometimes, to guess at numbers that may or may not play to a specific service strength. A lot of times there's something hidden in the details that you're missing as well. In our case, we didn't notice that Cloudinary didn't have an overage rate so if you go over any of the capped limits on a particular plan you have to move up to the next plan level. It was a very unpleasant surprise. We didn't notice it to compare because it simply...didn't appear anywhere.

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

beepbeepbeep1 wrote: post #49
truetraveller wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wanted to like B2. I love the docs and super-clean interface. But B2 was just too "weird" when it came to uploading an object. You can't replace an object key, so you always get a new object key when uploading. This is unlike any normal object store, where you can just upload to an existing key. Also, if you upload an object with the same name (e.g. myphoto.png) it creates a new version, and there's no way t…

B2 is great as a backup store. I use it for backup. I wouldn't use it for non backup object storage, as it's in a single data center. S3 and Google Cloud are completely different, I'm not sure on the Google specifics but S3 has data replicated across three AZs.

Isn't backing up the last place where you want zero redundancy?

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by hacknat »

I work for a company that has to provision hosted products for customers across all the clouds and the one that has been impressing me the most lately is Azure. The load balancers are also the gateways (sound network topology), so there is no need for elastic IPs, NAT Gateways, or proxy protocol. The other thing I like about Azure is they have storage classes that automatically cross region replicate. The automatic storage encryption is a bit of an issue, but I know they were working on it, last I checked.

You can’t beat the offerings of AWS, but there are definitely some compliance scenarios that are easier to fulfill on Azure.

We rarely get customer requests for Google Cloud. Seems like it’s mostly Azure and AWS (at least at the enterprise level).

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by willow_sp »

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- Amazon S3: https://medium.com/@javidgon/amazon-s3-pros-cons-and-how-to-...

- Google Cloud Storage: https://medium.com/@javidgon/google-cloud-storage-pros-cons-...

- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage: https://medium.com/@javidgon/microsoft-azure-blob-storage-pr...

- Backblaze B2: https://itnext.io/backblaze-b2-pros-cons-and-how-to-use-it-w...

- DigitalOcean Spaces: https://medium.com/dailyjs/digital-ocean-spaces-pros-cons-an...

- Wasabi Hot Storage: https://medium.com/@javidgon/wasabi-pros-cons-and-how-to-use...

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by moondev »

dsacco wrote: post #45

This is great, but I’m disappointed Backblaze B2 isn’t included. That seems like an oversight unless someone can point out how B2 doesn’t hold its own with these options in a glaring way. There are tradeoffs, but B2 seems to be very competitive overall. B2 is cheaper than every option here for both storage ($0.005/GB) and egress ($0.01/GB).[1] Their transaction pricing is also cheaper.[2] Despite being cheaper, it’s…

Backblaze is in only a single datacenter, so perhaps not quite fair to compare pricing between true multi-region competitors?

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by retrack »

Lunatic666 wrote: post #6

Is there any open source S3 compatible software? I know Riak Cloud Storage ( http://docs.basho.com/riak/cs/2.1.1/ ), but I think it’s not maintained anymore.

There is pithos [1] from the Exoscale [2] and powers the production system. A new version of the open source project with API signature v4 and other updates is due out soon.

[1] http://pithos.io/ [2] https://www.exoscale.com/object-storage/

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by askaboutit »

Wasabi storage has unlimited egress now. So spaces with its rate limiting doesn’t seem that much of a big deal.

Storage is something that won’t make much money in a few years I believe. I think the Egress overcharging maybe finally seeing decent competition.

https://wasabi.com/pricing/

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by askaboutit »

thebigjc wrote: post #46
Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

Can we include Wasabi[1] in the comparison? They seem to have a really compelling offering when it comes to Object Storage and their pricing. 1. https://wasabi.com/

Their pricing looks great. Has anyone used them?

Pricing has recently changed to remove egress costs completely. The speeds were ok. Nothing special. But this is most likely better used for long term data storage? With a CDN it would suit well as a large media store for video/image delivery.

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by corobo »

askaboutit wrote: post #58

Wasabi storage has unlimited egress now. So spaces with its rate limiting doesn’t seem that much of a big deal. Storage is something that won’t make much money in a few years I believe. I think the Egress overcharging maybe finally seeing decent competition. https://wasabi.com/pricing/

"unlimited" - It looks like if you actually try to use unlimited you get limited, it's closer to a Dropbox competitor than an s3 competitor

> If your use case creates an unreasonable burden on our infrastructure, we reserve the right to limit your egress traffic and/or ask you to switch to our Legacy pricing plan.

> Wasabi’s hot cloud storage service is not designed to be used to serve up (for example) web pages at a rate where the downloaded data far exceeds the stored data or any other use case where a small amount of data is served up a large amount of times

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