[js4ever]

I have recently talked with a friend about a very cheap way to egress from AWS, at $2.5 per TB with the AWS lightsail $5 instance which include 2TB of egress per instance. This friend have extracted 200TB of backups for $500 instead of $17,000!

[FlyingAvatar]

Reading this, I immediately thought: the cost has to go way down with 200TB of volume.

It goes down, but only to $14,131.11!

Nice find. I will file this away if I ever need to do a full remote recovery.

[crazysim]

That's against Lightsail TOS, if you care.

[ValentineC]

To save everyone else a lookup:

> 66.3. You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g., proxying network traffic from Services to the public Internet or other destinations or excessive data processing through load balancing Services as described in the Documentation), and if you do, we may throttle or suspend your data services or suspend your account.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/

[satanspastaroll]

You can do it somewhat cheaper than direct upload with snowballs, at ~$33/TB (S3 + 80TB/$250 shipping), but it's still very pricey

[Elect2]

So where is your friend's data in? s3? ebs? I'm curious what is the cost to transfer data from s3/ec2 to Lightsail.

[js4ever]

Mostly in S3 but S3/EC2 to lightsail is free within the same region :)

[Elect2]

I tried but seems aws has closed the door. To connect ec2 to Lightsail via private IP I have to create a "ec2-classic VPC" in ec2. But aws has disabled "ec2-classic VPC" in all regions

[rbdeveloper]

From what I know is that you can peer the Lightsail (AWS-managed) VPC with your normal, default EC2 VPC via the Lightsail console. Then you launch EC2 instances in the default VPC for the transfer