Aug 23, 2012, 18:26
Looks like Amazon has a new offering out for cheap, long term storage in the cloud - called Glacier.
Their current offering, S3, is quite expensive and more geared towards actively used data storage (websites etc.) whereas Glacier is more geared towards long term archival storage that does not change much. In my mind - that sort of scenario is perfect for photos. Anyway it's awesomely cheap - only $0.01 per GB per month... which means that 500GB will only cost you $5 a month.
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/08/21/amaz...the-cheap/
Their current offering, S3, is quite expensive and more geared towards actively used data storage (websites etc.) whereas Glacier is more geared towards long term archival storage that does not change much. In my mind - that sort of scenario is perfect for photos. Anyway it's awesomely cheap - only $0.01 per GB per month... which means that 500GB will only cost you $5 a month.
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/08/21/amaz...the-cheap/