[jrrrr]

My perception is that with AWS, instead of managing a physical data center, you have to manage a virtual one. You still need dedicated technical staff.

A small business should use a backup service like Backblaze. AWS is what you use to _build_ a backup service.

[mikeyla85]

Amazon was the only service that had storage that I could afford ($40/mo versus hundreds per month the competitors were asking.)

Backblaze, last I checked, has "unlimited" storage but requires you to plug the hard drive in every three months. A number of other details made it seem like it was not a good long term storage option.

I was focused on a solution that would let us store the film we spent a year working on for the next 50 years. We did this and LTO tape.