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!

  • @[email protected]English
    10•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.

    • rentar42
      20•6 months ago

      First: love that that’s a thing, but I find the blog post hilarious:

      We believe this choice must include the one to migrate your data to another cloud provider or on-premises. That’s why, starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges when you want to move outside of AWS.

      and later

      We believe in customer choice, including the choice to move your data out of AWS. The waiver on data transfer out to the internet charges also follows the direction set by the European Data Act and is available to all AWS customers around the world and from any AWS Region.

      But sure: it’s out of their love for customer choice that they offer this now. The fact that it also fulfills the requirements by the EDA is purely coincidental, they would have done it for sure.

      Remember folks: regulation works. Sometimes corporations need the state(s) to force their hand to do the right thing.

      • lemmyvoreEnglish
        2•6 months ago

        TBF it’s nice that they allowed it for everybody. Usually when a company is forced to do something in the EU they only do it in the EU.

    • capitalEnglish
      1•6 months ago

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

      Something to keep in mind.