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by genericpseudo 3904 days ago
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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Using the calculator for that service, I put in 50TB and 25 hard drives, and the estimated charges came out to $2435.75. The point where snowball is cheaper is fairly low. 4TB on 2 drives is 194.86. Basically more than 5TB over 2 or more drives and it's cheaper to use snowball. Plus you have to pay to have the drives returned back to you.