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Re:AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck by binarymax on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:45AM (#40076179)
Using the calculator (https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator/S3), AWS S3 "infrequent access" is $1.3M per month for 100PB. Not sure if that's single zone.
Re:AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck by Uehreka on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:57AM (#40076308)
If you put it in Glacier Deep Archive it’s closer to $1.3M per year, just to set a lower bound.
Re:AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck by vidarh on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:30PM (#40078631)
Deep Archive has retrieval times up to 12 hours, so for on-prem/colo that is then competing with buying a few tape robots (you can get a single tape archive that handles >1 exabyte, but you'll of course want redundancy without having to have staff shuffling tape in an archive that will run into the thousands). You can buy management software that tries to replicate a glacier-like experience for things like SpectraLogic tape libraries but they may not be the cheapest option.

It ends up becoming a very different beast than the storage classes w/fast enough retrieval guarantees to need disk, in any case.

Re:AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck by greggsy on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:01AM (#40076344)
Unlikely that they want it hot or even warm. That data almost definitely went to Gkacier while they worked out what to do with it.
Re:AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck by xyzzy_plugh on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:03AM (#40076367)
You overestimate the enterprise.