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There are Glacier clients that allow you to manage the "Restore Speed" so you don't get hit with ridiculous price hikes.

Glacier is PERFECT if you just need to restore a photo or document, and not the entire repo.

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But you have to store things in larger archives or the per-object overhead hurts your pricing. When Glacier first came out I really wanted to use it, but it had so much complexity over just treating it like an object store that I didn't use it. Then add the fact that S3 Standard kept coming down in price and Glacier just stood still (thus the name).

I'm currently storing my entire photo collection of about 50GB and ~20,000 photos. It cost me about $3 to upload the entire library. I pay around 50 cents a month for storage. YMMV, but I'm very happy with it.

Not that large. 25MB objects will cost you $.002 per GB to transfer, much lower than the storage and bandwidth costs. 5-10MB objects are perfectly feasible at low cost.

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