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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by tpetry on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:59AM (#18977253)
Isn‘t exporting 600TB of data from aws ridicously expensive?
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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by detaro on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:23AM (#18977350)
Twitters number is in PB, not TB. At that scale, assume that none of the normal pricing and procedures apply.
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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by asaddhamani on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:22AM (#18977345)
600TB would come out to around $50000 which for Twitter is peanuts. This is their bandwidth pricing though but I guess they'd use snowmobile export (if that exists?) instead.
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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by gervase on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:48AM (#18979174)
For reference, 300PB (the amount referenced in the article) using the same pricing would cost $25M. Still might be a reasonable one-time cost for migration for a large corporation, though, even disregarding the "bulk" rates they'd see at that scale.
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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by teej on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:42PM (#18985256)
AWS Snowmobile cost is $0.005/GB per month which comes out to $1.5M/month for 300PB for however long the data is on the truck.
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