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> you can sidestep that with something like Snowball

Going by AWS's website[0], a 50 TB Snowball is $200, so you'd need to drop $1000 for five Snowballs to hold that data.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/migrate-peta...

It's about $20k to egress 250 TB from AWS, so you still come out way ahead.

Anyone contemplating Snowball or Snowmobile needs to be aware that they always charge the per-GB price for data egress, on top of the hardware rental and shipping.

Ah damn, you're right. Looks like it's cheaper than the internet egress fee (looks like $0.02/GB versus $0.09/GB if I'm interpreting the pricing table correctly?). Azure's glacier equivalent might be worth a look in that case, since their egress is usually a lot cheaper.

The webpage says: Data transfers into Amazon S3 are free.

Egress means that cost of getting your data back from S3 someday.

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