[FeepingCreature]

AWS S3 Deep Glacier is really cheap nowadays (at least in some zones), on the order of $1/TB. As an average home NAS user with 8TB of data, I've finally taken the plunge and started backing it up. It was never worth the cost before.

[gallexme]

How much is recovery of let's say 500gb a month/1 full restore a year ?

[FeepingCreature]

Googling says 2c/GB, cheaper (10x) in bulk.

[kstrauser]

You might wanna double-check your math. I used the AWS pricing calculator, said I wanted to store 8000GB in Glacier Deep Archive in us-east-2, and wanted to recover it using 16000 API requests (wild guess). That, plus $0.05-$0.09/GB transfer came out to about $960 to recover.

Glacier is always super cheap as long as you don’t need to recover, and then it’s ferocious.