[Mave83]

just build your own storage and save an incredible amount.

It's hard you might think, but it's not. croit.io provides all you need to deploy a scalable cluster even on multiple geographic regions.

Price for 1 PB sized cluster including everything from rack to hardware to license to labor for below 3€/TB/Month or at the Amazon Glacier price tag but with the S3-IA access.

[driverdan]

Are you seriously suggesting that NASA didn't consider alternatives, like their current self-hosted solutions?

[GordonS]

Given they "forgot" about egress bandwidth costs, I think the parent's comment was fair.

[mister_hn]

What about maintenance? Some forget about that... Broken drives, broken RAID, broken NAS.

A 120TB SSD NAS might cost over 200k€ ..imagine a 250PB one

[dna_polymerase]

Do you want to add your contact details to your post so NASA can get in touch or what is going on here. Add a little disclaimer that you work for/are croit.io so people can instantaneously see why you would argue for the space agency of the U.S. to run their own data storage.

[RandomTisk]

Seems like a poor choice. If they're getting an incredible deal with AWS, then fine, but I would be utterly shocked if most seasoned and competent IT professionals couldn't design and build a multi-region storage array for far less than Amazon will charge them.