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by kstrauser 812 days ago
Caution: restoring from Glacier can be hellishly expensive. Poke around at https://liangzan.net/aws-glacier-calculator/ and see what prices you see given your data size.
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philistine 812 days ago
Expensive external backups if I ever need it is better than none at all. It's a bet, but hey so is insurance.

EDIT: I checked your tool. It's a 1000 bucks to restore 4 TB in 48 hours. If the house burns down, insurance will cover that. I guess now I know I gotta check those drives a bit more.

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kstrauser 812 days ago
Ok, cool. As long as you know about it up front! I’ve heard nightmare stories of people being very surprised by their bill afterward.
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Dylan16807 812 days ago
> It's a 1000 bucks to restore 4 TB in 48 hours.

What? This tool is exceptionally out of date. Retrieval cost is $30/TB at the high end, and for glacier deep archive and a 48 hour window it only costs $2.50/TB. (Plus a few cents per thousand requests, so maybe don't use tiny objects.)

Glacier's percentage-rate-based retrieval pricing was only active from 2012-2016.

The bandwidth charge of $90/TB is still accurate. Though there are ways to reduce it.

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