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That unicorn machine had better not use unicorn data transfer. Transferring an average of 100Mbps from S3 to your unicorn? That will cost you $1-3k / mo depending on how you configure it and what tier you’re in. Never mind that buying the hardware to sustain these data rates at home or in the colo is so cheap as to not even be worth mentioning and can easily be done on 20-year-old gear.

Of course, those prices to rapidly up if you use serious data. Want to train your fancy ML model to draw cats based on your giant data set of customer cat photos stored on S3? Want to do it on your nice nVidia box at home? That, by itself, might cost as much as an expensive Silicon Valley FTE who could manage an entire installation in a colo facility nearby.