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For video (especially with proper 3-2-1 backup) it is somehow expensive.

5 years of our sales and finance data from 10+ countries takes less than a petabyte

Our 2 years backup of hundreds CCTV for only a single factory compressed, reduced to 15 fps takes around 4 PB. This data only used when we have a complaint case. Most of the times it just overwritten with new data without a single person ever see the video.



My back of the napkin calculation for S3's glacier tier says that would cost roughly 50 grand a year.

That seems...reasonable?


It's very reasonable.

I should wrote somehow "feel" expensive because :

This data only used when we have a complaint case. Most of the times it just overwritten with new data without a single person ever see the video.




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