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0 pointsJohnny5554y ago0 comments

10PB costs more than $210,000 per month at S3, or more than $12M after five years.

Your pricing is off by a 2X - he said he's ok with infrequent access, 1 zone, which is $0.01/GB, or $100K/month.

If he rarely needs to read most of the data, he can cut the price by 1/10th by using deep archive, $0.00099 per GB, so $10K/month, or around $600K over 5 years, not including retrieval costs.

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Titan21894y ago

Nope, can't use Deep Archive as he specified max retrieval time of 1000ms. But you're correct with S3-IA

Johnny555OP4y ago

For a 10X reduction in cost, things that are impossible often become possible.

webmaven4y ago

> Nope, can't use Deep Archive as he specified max retrieval time of 1000ms.

If accesses can be anticipated, pre-loading data from cold storage to something warmer might make it viable.

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