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How am I not already aware of these guys? Pricing looks good.

Seems to be around 6 times more expensive than S3 for my usage (<1TB, EU Standard - Infrequent Access is $0.0125/GB vs $0.08/GB).

Of course, you can’t rsync to S3 so I’m handling backups with duplicity and using S3 as the storage target.

An important point to note is that esp. with S3 infrequent access or Glacier there are additional costs associated with restoring, which can be quite high. With S3/Glacier one needs to spend a bit of time to even figure out how much a restore would cost.

Yes, the data retrieval fee for infrequent access is $0.01/GB so a 1TB restore would cost me $10.

Thankfully I’ve not had to perform a complete restore, though I do regular test restores of a part of the backup just to make sure it’s all still working.

Edit: It’s actually $100 (as transfer from S3->Internet adds $0.09/GB)

No, it's $100, since the egress traffic will cost ~$0.09/GB.

You’re right, I hadn’t taken that into account.

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