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Re:AWS Snowcone by buzzdenver on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:03PM (#23555350)
Can you transfer data out of AWS with Snowcone? I thought it was all transfer in, which is free.
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Re:AWS Snowcone by angry_octet on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:00PM (#23556685)
You can transfer out, but you pay the similarly insane egress costs. Somewhat cheaper, but still bonkers.

Snowball/snowcone, US East

$0.03 per GB ~-> $300 per 10TB

If you're buying disks at scale that's almost the cost of the disk.

Network egress

$0.15 per GB

$0.08 per GB (>150TB/month)

It makes sense for the occassional transfer so you're not paying for expensive EBS storage for stuff you don't need cloud access to.

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Re:AWS Snowcone by amichal on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:02PM (#23556046)
A screenshot in the article implies that you "Export from S3" https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2020/snow_job_type_...
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