> S3’s dominance is due to its many advantages: effectively infinite capacity, high durability, and low per-gigabyte capacity cost.It's not "cheap". 6 months of S3 is at around price of outright buying 4TB SSD at retail price. That before you do any IOPS to itS3 is terrible deal on any front. it's just easy
If you play the game correctly it can be a good deal. The ~1 USD per TB per month of glacier deep archive is hard to compete with if you (probably) don’t need to read the data back.
What use is data that is never read unless it is for redundancy, disaster recovery, legal, or audit purposes, etc.Yes you can make the argument for that specific use case.For everyday use case, using s3 as your primary storage is costly and is not at all ideal.
PunchyHamster · · focus · HN ↗
It's not "cheap". 6 months of S3 is at around price of outright buying 4TB SSD at retail price. That before you do any IOPS to it
S3 is terrible deal on any front. it's just easy
tempay · · focus · HN ↗
elendilm · · focus · HN ↗
Yes you can make the argument for that specific use case.
For everyday use case, using s3 as your primary storage is costly and is not at all ideal.