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This doesn’t disregard that. It lays it out with some nice numbers so that it’s clear. It’s much appreciated.

I’m very happy to pay USD 200 if I ever need to retrieve a last chance backup. If I just want the data in no rush I can trickle it back over 20 months for free.

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Outbound traffic costs always cost the same regardless of your retrieval speed to API. If you only have a couple TBs worth of high-value data, this may be acceptable to you. It's far from being a universal truth though.

But you get 100 GiB/month free download :)

Downloading backups for a decade is untenable

100 GiB per month for a decade... how many terabytes of irreplaceable pictures have you got?

But, yeah, making use of a free service loophole, it taking ten months for a terabyte, and presuming you're using zero other Amazon services that count towards your free trial amount, I agree with you it's a stretch. But if you're really cheap or hate Amazon with a passion (but not enough not to host with them) it's not that far fetched.

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