Re:The Cloud
by paulddraper on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:09PM
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The cost of S3 is pretty dang cheap for advertised 99.99% available, 99.999999999% durable storage: $0.02/GB/month.
And that's ignoring the Glacier storage class (which probably didn't show up on that historical graph), which is a fifth of that.
Re:The Cloud
by votepaunchy on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:02PM
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> And that's ignoring the Glacier storage class, which is a fifth of that.
And Glacier Deep Archive is a further fourth of that.
Bandwidth prices vary widely and some are bad, so the “all in” price can be hard to figure. It’s definitely cheap to let your data just sit there. Move it anywhere — it might get expensive.
Re:The Cloud
by paulddraper on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:35PM
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AWS charges $5 per million write requests, $0.40 per million read requests. Inbound bandwidth is free; outbound bandwidth ranges from free (within same AWS region) to $0.05/GB for public internet at scale.
The latter number can be pricey. But, irrelevant with respect to the failing costs of hard drives.
BTW, I use a wonderful tool called goofys that lets you mount S3 buckets as local volumes. There are a number of constraints (can open for read, or write a file once) but it works well for a wide range of legacy applications.
"BTW, I use a wonderful tool called goofys that lets you mount S3 buckets as local volumes."
You may be interested in the 'rclone' tool which does all of these things, and more, with all of the cloud providers:
You might want to highlight that rclone has FUSE support – you have to scroll down the page a bit to learn that your comment wasn't comparing unlike things:
S3 costs pretty much what that infrastructure costs to run yourself.
But certainly, go ahead and run a Riak CS cluster (plus those other things) on top of some Herzberg servers, and try to outcompete S3 on price. I—and many others—will be waiting. :)