Ask HN: Does anyone need a cheap way to move data OUT of Amazon S3?
I've recently come up with a method retrieving data out of S3 indirectly using another AWS service for less than the posted egress rates. It is not an exploit of a security vulnerability or anything remotely similar. Also doesn't rely on compression, nor does it use the AWS Export services like Snowball. Technically this could be applied to any data within AWS, not just S3.
I can do this for less than 2 or 3 cents per GB, potentially less, and reliably. I have benchmarked this technique with some data of my own moving files from S3 to Google Cloud Storage.
Does anyone have a use to hire me to implement this technique for them, or know anyone who does? It would be a significant savings over the standard egress rates for people needing to transfer many terabytes of data.
Email is in my profile.