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Amazon’s S3: Almost free storage

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I remember awhile back coming across a post that Nick Carr did about someone who was using Amazon’s S3 remote storage service to do backups, and wound up getting a bill for a month’s worth of charges for hosting his data — and it was a single cent (the origina ... Continue reading »

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  • I'm going to have to give that a try for photos.

    I've been thinking about doing it for mp3s as well. Restoring is so time consuming.
  • How much did you upload? 2mb?
  • Somewhere between 500 megabytes and a gigabyte, Joe.
  • What kind of guarantees do we have for data security as users of AWS? I think AWS is great, but I'm wondering how 'secure' my data is. I put secure in quotes because there is really no guaranteed way secure your data, short of taking it to Fort Knox.

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