alt Hacker NewsIf you play the game correctly it can be a good deal. The ~1 USD per TB per month of glacier deep archive is hard to compete with if you (probably) don’t need to read the data back.
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elendilm • today at 12:22 AM
What use is data that is never read unless it is for redundancy, disaster recovery, legal, or audit purposes, etc.
Yes you can make the argument for that specific use case.
For everyday use case, using s3 as your primary storage is costly and is not at all ideal.
I agree, but that's cherry-picking what is perhaps the only cost-effective service in all of AWS.