> 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
That's AWS in general for you. It has its place, but it's vastly overused in our industry. A lot of businesses would find their TCO would go down if they ditched cloud services, but that's not trendy enough for execs to do it.
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
bigstrat2003 · · focus · HN ↗