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S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

79 points · 120 comments · tkhattra

  1. PunchyHamster · · focus · HN ↗
    > 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 it

    S3 is terrible deal on any front. it's just easy

    1. tempay · · focus · HN ↗
      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.
      1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
        I agree, but that's cherry-picking what is perhaps the only cost-effective service in all of AWS.
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