[TriLUG] AWS storage and upload thingies

[Scott Miller via TriLUG]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Igor Partola  wrote:
> I would caution against using Glacier. The pricing for it is some of the most complicated in AWS, and you can get bitten by it badly. It is for real disaster recovery and where recovery time doesn't matter. Basically you can only retrieve something like 10% of your data per month without it becoming hugely expensive. It is effectively write only storage where you can say that the data is safe, but can't really get at it quickly or easily.


AWS dropped pricing for glacier retrieval in Nov 2016:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-s3-glacier-price-reductions/

It's not as painful in price as it was previously.