[influx]

There's not much to the S3 API, and data import/export even at massive scale is available with Snowball. Sure, there's many other AWS services that aren't available at other vendors, but blob storage is commodified at this point.

[amarshall]

Exporting data from S3 is ludicrously expensive, even with Snowball it’s $30/TB just for network egress.

[Aeolun]

If I can get all of my data out of S3 for $30, then whatever the cost is for an enterprise with 1000TB, it must be within reason.