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Re:Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS by ernsheong on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:07PM (#22975224)
1TB in GCP Cloud Storage's Archive storage class is just $1.20 per month. https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=8404213d-ef...

Retrieval is within seconds, not hours like in Glacier.

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Re:Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS by eigen-vector on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:34PM (#22981219)
Disclaimer: I work for AWS.

A counter point to think about. Archival storage needs to inform engineering behavior as well. If I'm archiving something knowing that retrieval will take longer or is expensive, I will make smart decisions about what I should be archiving. If I archive knowing that retrieval is in seconds, I'm probably dumping everything in the archive.

I don't know how popular GCP's archival storage is, but when it grows and customers start using it simply as a cheaper hot storage (because it is fast and cheap), they'll have to rethink their pricing.

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Re:Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS by rob-olmos on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:35PM (#22975331)
Impressive to me but $50 to retrieve 1TB vs cheaper tiers on AWS for slower. I don't know what GCP's retrieval throughput is though.
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Re:Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS by anakaiti on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:35AM (#22977161)
There's also B2, with 5$/TB for storage & 10$/TB for retrieval [0].

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[0] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

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