[underscores]

If you have tons of TBs, you don't want to care about random failure with some third party. Amazon S3 has the reputation that they never lost a file, AFAIK. On their scale that provides an argument to just fork over the cash and forget about it.

While I think ZFS is great, it's just not a solution for really large storage.

Also, if you are still using s3cmd, that only tells me how inexperienced you are.

[rsync]

"Also, if you are still using s3cmd, that only tells me how inexperienced you are."

I'm not sure you understand how s3cmd is being used in the above context ... the idea is this:

  ssh [e-mail] s3cmd get s3://rsynctest/mscdex.exe

Also, we've been doing this longer than Amazon has.

[PhantomGremlin]

if you are still using s3cmd, that only tells me how inexperienced you are

Can we have a brief (one or two sentence) summary of what people should be using instead?

[ac29]

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/