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Re:Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup... by skynet-9000 on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:41PM (#26918982)
10 petabytes at AWS is $210,000 per month just for storage (even excluding AWS's very high egress and transaction pricing), so even $1M (which seems like a high estimate indeed) would be amortized in less than six months.

Also, the hardware can be depreciated, which reduces its net (of taxes) cost dramatically over time.

Five years (probably the useful life of the equipment in general) of $210,000 per month is $12.6M. That's a lot of savings.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup... by user5994461 on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:37PM (#26919514)
At this scale you should be able to negotiate with AWS and get a deal better than the listed price.

Regarding accounting, the AWS monthly charges are also net of taxes so it makes no difference.

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