Hi everyone,

As always, every time I look at the AWS Glacier egress fee calculator I get fairly irked at how much they charge. Was wondering if anyone knew of any alternatives for cold storage in the cloud without such egregious charges. I will likely not access it ever because I have another offset backup, but just in case I do, I wouldn’t want to fork over thousands, really.

I don’t know how reliable Scaleway’s service is, and Cloudflare’s R2 doesn’t have a Archive offering. I would be interested in the Azure if anyone can convince me that I won’t go bankrupt trying to retrieve my data from them. I don’t want to go with Google with the recent stuff they have been doing with data on their servers.

Thanks!

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Fwiw, AWS offers a one-time egress without charge in response to the EU order to allow people to switch cloud providers.

    Once approved, we will provide credits for the data being migrated. We don’t require you to close your account or change your relationship with AWS in any way. You’re welcome to come back at any time. We will, of course, apply additional scrutiny if the same AWS account applies multiple times for free DTO.

    So if you’re going to do this for that one time you have to, probably not a big deal.

    But if I were you, I’d be prepared to egress, kill the account, and then create a new account.

    • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Transfer charges are not restore charges - which are required when bringing files out of glacier.

      Something to keep in mind.