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by yeldarb 2439 days ago
Wow, does it really cost 4-5x more to download a 1 GB file from S3 or Google Cloud Storage than it does to store it for a month? That is mind-blowing.
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qvrjuec 2439 days ago
Bandwidth is expensive, storage is cheap.
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throwaway2048 2439 days ago
cloud providers charge a lot more for bandwidth yes, but in reality bandwidth is much, much cheaper than storage for them to provide.
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asdfman123 2439 days ago
Amazon Snowball, if I understand it correctly, is a box full of hard drives that they mail you to transfer data. So no bandwidth there.

It still costs $0.03/GB, which is on top of the $200 they charge you to use the service.

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dx034 2438 days ago
Not with smaller cloud providers or colocation centers.
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