My funny story is built on the idea that AWS is Hotel California for your data.
A customer had an interest in merging the data from an older account into a new one, just to simplify matters. Enterprise data. Going back years. Not even leaving the region.
The AWS rep in the meeting kinda pauses, says: "We'll get back to you on the cost to do that."
The sticker shock was enough that the customer simply inherited the old account, rather than making things tidy.
R2 is great. Our GCS bill (almost all egress) jumped from a few hundred dollars a month to a couple thousand dollars a month last year due to a usage spike. We rush-migrated to R2 and now that part of the bill is $0.
I've heard some people here on HN say that it's slow, but I haven't noticed a difference. We're mainly dealing with multi-megabyte image files, so YMMV if you have a different workload.
awesome. I remember reading about this a while ago, but never tried. Since it has the same API i can imagine its not daunting as a multi-cloud infrastructure.
I guess permissions might be more complex, as in EC2 instance profiles wouldnt grant access, etc.
Just to make sure nobody is confused by this - R2 has the same API as S3, not GCS. We had to build a simple abstraction around GCS/S3 to perform the migration. But if you're migrating from S3, it's pretty much drop-in. We even use the AWS-provided S3 Java library (especially convenient for making signed URLs).
My (peripheral) experience is that it is much cheaper to get data in than to get data out. When you have the amount of data being discussed — "Enterprise data. Going back years." — that can get very costly.
It's the amount of data where it makes more sense to put hard drives on a truck and drive across the country rather than send it over a network, where this becomes an issue (actually, probably a bit before then).
AWS actually has a service for this - Snowmobile, a storage datacenter inside of a shipping container, which is driven to you on a semi truck. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
> Q: Can I export data from AWS with Snowmobile?
>
> Snowmobile does not support data export. It is designed to let you quickly, easily, and more securely migrate exabytes of data to AWS. When you need to export data from AWS, you can use AWS Snowball Edge to quickly export up to 100TB per appliance and run multiple export jobs in parallel as necessary. Visit the Snowball Edge FAQs to learn more.
"Data transferred "in" to and "out" from Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), and Amazon ElastiCache instances, Elastic Network Interfaces or VPC Peering connections across Availability Zones in the same AWS Region is charged at $0.01/GB in each direction."
A customer had an interest in merging the data from an older account into a new one, just to simplify matters. Enterprise data. Going back years. Not even leaving the region.
The AWS rep in the meeting kinda pauses, says: "We'll get back to you on the cost to do that."
The sticker shock was enough that the customer simply inherited the old account, rather than making things tidy.