AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data

Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by bdcravens on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:13PM (#21316072)

That would still require egress.

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Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by PopeDotNinja on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:30PM (#21316238)

How about just sending Freedom Of Information Act request to the NSA asking them for a copy of your data. I think this is a joke...

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Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by otterley on Monday October 21, 2019 @04:37PM (#21317025)

Government agencies can (and often do) charge FOIA processing fees. Not that this has anything to do with cloud egress charges though.

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Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by aidos on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:19PM (#21316124)

I was going to say it’d be an improvement but I can’t actually make sense of the AWS Snowball proving

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/pricing/

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Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by lelandbatey on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:35PM (#21316312)

The pricing seems relatively clear:

A flat fee for the act of a human getting the data onto the physical medium ($200) + the cost of shipping (<$100?) + $15 per day you keep the snowball device past the first + price per GB of data you're transferring ($0.03 per/GB).

So if your getting out 30 TB of data that's $200 + ~$100 + ($0.03 * 30000) = ~$1200

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Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by aidos on Monday October 21, 2019 @04:00PM (#21316607)

I was confused by the “Standard Amazon S3 storage and request pricing applies.” That seems to be a different thing from the extra S3 transfer costs.

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