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
    13·
    5 months ago

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

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Do they offer multi-region storage boxes? Hetzner is definitely a name I can trust (at the moment), I’m interested

      • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Two locations in Germany and maybe one in Finland iirc. Check their website to be sure. None outside Europe for now.

          • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            You could ask on lowendspirit.com for other cheap storage. Yeah Storage Box is mostly raw storage with RAID-6 but no automatic replication or backup. The somewhat.more expensive Storage Cloud product is backed up nightly.

      • tofubl@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Storage box is self-serviced storage on a single server, as far as I’m aware. If you need replication, you need to rent storage at a second location and do it yourself.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    5 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.

    • rentar42@kbin.social
      11·
      5 months ago

      First: love that that’s a thing, but I find the blog post hilarious:

      We believe this choice must include the one to migrate your data to another cloud provider or on-premises. That’s why, starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges when you want to move outside of AWS.

      and later

      We believe in customer choice, including the choice to move your data out of AWS. The waiver on data transfer out to the internet charges also follows the direction set by the European Data Act and is available to all AWS customers around the world and from any AWS Region.

      But sure: it’s out of their love for customer choice that they offer this now. The fact that it also fulfills the requirements by the EDA is purely coincidental, they would have done it for sure.

      Remember folks: regulation works. Sometimes corporations need the state(s) to force their hand to do the right thing.

  • meteokr@community.adiquaints.moeEnglish
    61·
    5 months ago

    Does Backblaze work for what you are doing? It been a bit since I’ve price compared them, but I think it was something around 5$ a month per TB?

  • SteadyGoLucky@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    5 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.

  • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    BuyVM has $24s/yr KVM server that you can attach storage at $5/TB/mn. So 5TB should set you back $325/yr all in. They’ve been around for quite some time — I’ve been client since 2011 — so they’re not likely to disappear anytime soon.

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Do they offer multi-region replication of storage? This stuff is fairly important to me and I’ve not exactly heard of BuyVM in the same league for Cloud storage providers like AWS, BackBlaze and Cloudflare

      • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        No multi-region unless you roll it yourself. Their offerings are primarily web hosting centric, so you’d need to do the heavy lifting yourself if you want more infra. Also worth noting that they’re definitely not in the same league as the big players, they’re just an old vendor that isn’t likely to disappear on you.