[baz00]

S3 is fine until you want your data to leave AWS.

Then it costs $92 / TB to get it out again.

Also S3 has durability guarantees but it's very difficult to do a durable transactional write to S3. Try it a few million times and see. The API is a defacto shitty standard.

These two facts are rather interesting when it comes to doing a restore from your supposed backup or wonder why consistency guarantees between external metadata services (DB) and what is in S3 don't always line up.

[slt2021]

and why would you ever take raw data out of AWS ?

if it is for migration: it is one time cost that anyone can swallow easily if they decided to leave AWS for something else.

If your data is worth < $94/tb - it is really not worth pulling it out of AWS. Just let it sit there.

or just use cloudfront to download your data ($8.5/Tb)?

[jameshush]

On top of that, if it's a big enough deal, most salespeople at other cloud providers (GCP, Oracle etc.) will gladly pay you to migrate. They'd probably even throw one of their Solutions Engineers at the problem and do it for you for free.

[baz00]

Selling your soul to a different crack dealer. Hmm.

[catchnear4321]

crackheads will move mountains for a score.

this checks out.