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fuzzybabybunny
fuzzybabybunny

Reputation: 5254

Cloud storage for infrequently accessed files?

I'm creating an app for hosting files and photos. Files that have been uploaded recently will be accessed numerous times, so something like Amazon S3 would be excellent for this.

But as files grow older I expect them to be accessed very infrequently. However, when they are accessed, I still would like them to be available immediately, so Amazon Glacier doesn't work in this regard because restoration takes hours and hours.

Is there a storage solution somewhere in between the cost of S3 and Glacier where the price gets reduced dramatically because the files are accessed, say, once a year versus numerous times an hour, while still preserving instant access?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (2)

Frederick Cheung
Frederick Cheung

Reputation: 84134

S3 has an infrequent access storage class, priced at a bit under half the cost of normal storage.

The tradeoffs you make are that objects under 128k are billed as if they are 128k and the availability target is 99.9% rather than 99.99%

Upvotes: 1

Russell Young
Russell Young

Reputation: 2043

Azure offers [hot and cold storage tiers][1] [1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/storage-blob-storage-tiers/ for blob storage, whereby the cold tier gives the same access time as the hot tier, while giving a different cost model.

Upvotes: 1

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