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oefrha on May 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS EC2 General Price Cut

> you can always get AWS to transfer it to you via a Snowball for $30/TB + a $300 fee.

1. That fee is in addition to S3 retrieval costs.

> Q: What does it cost to export my data?

> In addition to the Export job fees detailed on our pricing page, you will also be charged all fees incurred to retrieve your data from Amazon S3.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/faqs/

2. $30/TB isn’t even cheap by itself.

scarface74 on May 10, 2020 [–]

If you’re any kind of business ,$30 a TB is cheap.

S3 request fees are $.0004 per 1000 GET requests. If you had 100000 objects (files) you would pay $40

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