Hi everyone,

As always, every time I look at the AWS Glacier egress fee calculator I get fairly irked at how much they charge. Was wondering if anyone knew of any alternatives for cold storage in the cloud without such egregious charges. I will likely not access it ever because I have another offset backup, but just in case I do, I wouldn’t want to fork over thousands, really.

I don’t know how reliable Scaleway’s service is, and Cloudflare’s R2 doesn’t have a Archive offering. I would be interested in the Azure if anyone can convince me that I won’t go bankrupt trying to retrieve my data from them. I don’t want to go with Google with the recent stuff they have been doing with data on their servers.

Thanks!

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 months ago

    I’m pretty happy with Hetzner Storage Box at around 2 euro/month/TB with no bandwidth fees.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    Fwiw, AWS offers a one-time egress without charge in response to the EU order to allow people to switch cloud providers.

    Once approved, we will provide credits for the data being migrated. We don’t require you to close your account or change your relationship with AWS in any way. You’re welcome to come back at any time. We will, of course, apply additional scrutiny if the same AWS account applies multiple times for free DTO.

    So if you’re going to do this for that one time you have to, probably not a big deal.

    But if I were you, I’d be prepared to egress, kill the account, and then create a new account.

    • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Transfer charges are not restore charges - which are required when bringing files out of glacier.

      Something to keep in mind.

  • SteadyGoLucky@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    I would recommend to avoid Scaleway. They simply lost part of my files in the first week. Were very unresponsive and in the end could not recover. Pretty much everything you are hoping to never encounter with a storage provider.

    • kevincox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I also had a bad experience where I had a test website under a megabyte in a storage bucket. It was under the free tier and sat there for a few years. Then one month they sent me a bill (it was small, a handful of cents). Contact support saying that this use is under the free tier. They said that data was added then removed from the bucket. I hadn’t logged into the account, no living API keys. They wouldn’t forgive the charge.

      Luckily my credit card had expired so they just locked my account.

      • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Stork seems like a great choice considering the fact that it’s replicated over several regions by default. I might start using it myself.

  • zorflieg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I use idrive e2. When I did the math it’s yearly up front cost works out what deep archive is without an egress fee and it’s quicker. In the fine print there is a fair use policy on downloads but I think it’s 5x the storage amount.

    Deep archive storage alone without puts is $24 TB year. idrive is $15 first year $30 subsequent. But it behaves more like s3 standard instant retrieval which is much more expensive.

    Small company but have been around a long time now.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yep, iDrive is the way to go, before they raised their prices I got 50 TB for a year for $500. I moved everything back locally, now I’m just going to use them for off-site backups. You can’t beat $15 for 1 TB for a year.