alt Hacker NewsThat’s simply not true. I use S3 (well GCS mostly) for data that I wouldn’t be upset if it’s lost. And I pay the zonal discount for it.
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mitxela • yesterday at 11:40 PM
You call it "discount" but it's a 20% discount on a 10x inflated price, so it's an 8x inflated price
Google internally has lots of possible redundancy levels for data.
They don't sell any of the lower and less reliable levels to the public, I suspect simply because the reputational damage from losing user data is so bad, and the news will take no notice of the fact the user got a discount for less reliable storage.