This often disregards the cost of retrieving said data, which is at $90/TB for outboud network traffic on top of the costs of making the backups available.
This doesn’t disregard that. It lays it out with some nice numbers so that it’s clear. It’s much appreciated.
I’m very happy to pay USD 200 if I ever need to retrieve a last chance backup. If I just want the data in no rush I can trickle it back over 20 months for free.
Outbound traffic costs always cost the same regardless of your retrieval speed to API. If you only have a couple TBs worth of high-value data, this may be acceptable to you. It's far from being a universal truth though.
100 GiB per month for a decade... how many terabytes of irreplaceable pictures have you got?
But, yeah, making use of a free service loophole, it taking ten months for a terabyte, and presuming you're using zero other Amazon services that count towards your free trial amount, I agree with you it's a stretch. But if you're really cheap or hate Amazon with a passion (but not enough not to host with them) it's not that far fetched.
