[chrislusf]

Most cloud object storage can be a good off-site backup. But accessing your data fast and cheap is not easy.

That is why SeaweedFS added a gateway to remote object store. https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Gateway-to-Remot... , which asynchronously write local changes to the cloud. If there are enough local capacity, there should be no egress cost.

Hopefully, this can change the common pattern, to really treat the cloud object store as a backup.