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Greatest? The most expensive, for sure.

The price has dropped from $150/TB-month at inception to $1/TB-month with Deep Archive. Now competitive with RAID storage.

I'm sorry, but there is no such thing as fixed per-TB price in S3.

Could you please elaborate? Storage price is fixed. Other costs are requests and transfers and those depend on your usage.

> Other costs are requests and transfers and those depend on your usage.

That's my point. You can't actually state the price per TB is N, you can just estimate it and hope it doesn't exceed the estimate. For some companies and scenarios it doesn't matter, for others it's significant enough.

If you want an S3 service with lower pricing than AWS there are providers like Wasabi. They only charge for space used and not traffic.

I believe Wasabi currently charges $5.99 per tb a month which is pretty reasonable imo.

That's way too expensive for my needs. I use an 10x10 TB server from Hetzner for €200/month. Unlimited traffic is included if you use the standard 1 Gbps link.

Deep Archive is really cheap for storage, but you better pray you never need to restore your files.

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