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For those out there using S3 to store their personal backups, I'd like to recommend Wasabi [0] as either a replacement or addition to AWS S3. Wasabi offers object storage in multiple regions, compatible with AWS S3 API and therefore is a drop-in replacement. The storage cost is $6 per TB p/m, with no bandwidth costs.

I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer enjoying massive cost savings.

[0] https://wasabi.com/

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There’s something “off” about them that’s difficult for me to put my finger on. I think it might be either their marketing approach, or signs of operational immaturity (GoDaddy domain issue taking them down for most of a day, for instance).

They advertise this on the website:

  > 80% Less than Amazon S3

Why would I use a service that is 80% less reliable than Amazon S3? And if they mean something other than reliability - such as uptime, price, or transfer speed - then they should state it clearly.

It’s not for people that won’t put more than 2 seconds of work into something. It’s a discount service.

That line could easily be a decoy to ward off problem customers who don’t know how to use APIs, read specs, etc and would be high customer service load.

So it's 80% less service than S3, I see ))

In any case, thanks for mentioning the service. I'm quite happy with [Boto](https://github.com/boto/boto3) for interfacing with Glacier but it is good to know about alternatives.

What a ridiculous nitpick.

You should mention the 90 day rule, however.

Basically anything that gets uploaded is billed as if it is was stored for 90 days minimum, even if deleted, overwritten etc.

An additional difference is that the egress is limited to the size of the buckets. So if you store 1 TB your egress should not be more than 1TB in a month.

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