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I just save everything to Amazon Glacier that's not the current year. Current year + library files are dumped into S3 ... rinse and repeat.

For photos, I am using Adobe Lightroom and organize files into folders by year/month/day/subject during import. Edited GoPro videos go to YouTube etc and originals/edits straight to Glacier.

This takes a bit of effort to set up but works great great.

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Would you be open to sharing numbers here? For example how much data you're storing on Glacier/S3, monthly data transfer and monthly costs to you?

Sure.

I have roughly 600GB stored on Glacier and around 50 GB on S3 so far this year.

I am yet to spend more than $10/month.

Wait, you say, Google Drive is 9.99 for 1T!

True, I say, but on AWS you only pay for what you use. So you will realize real saving once you push past your first 1T in cumulative storage.

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