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by IgorPartola 3649 days ago
I am confused: what is the "Cost of Operation"? Is that a one-time fee? For 1.3 TB of data, they are quoting something like 2.58 per month and 12.88 "Cost of operation".

Also, can I use this with duplicity?

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After reading the page the 'cost of operation' might be what happened before-your-download and after-your-upload, as you are dealing with its deposit-cache-storage, so I assume it means 'archive-from-deposit/unarchive-to-deposit'. This is the same as charging for download(so download is _not_ free), and nearly the same as charging for upload(unless you remove the uploaded content from deposit quickly).

For Glacier I believe the download is not free? You need pay for the retrieval of stored data.

I find it a bit confusing as well, but I assume it means when you "operate" on the data: read or write it from disk.

Edit: this seems to be it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969786