Cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?
I'm working on a new neural network based project, which means I'll need to access and store more data than I can keep on my hard drives.
While I'm familiar with AWS S3 from my day job, I was wondering what other alternatives are out there that may be cheaper (or even free)?
I'm also aware of dropbox, google docs, etc., but ideally I'd like to have programmatic access via an API.
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Late to this, but if anyone is still looking for a simple way to handle the "upload and serve files" use case, FilePost is worth a look.
It gives you a public CDN URL through Cloudflare from a single API call, without dealing with buckets, IAM, or bandwidth pricing. It is obviously not trying to be a full S3 replacement, but for this specific use case it is a lot simpler.
Backblaze B2 comes to mind because it is specifically marketed as being like S3 but 1/4th the price.
DigitalOcean also has a similar service which they call Spaces though I believe its price is similar to that of S3.
Thanks, I'll look at both of those.
Do you have any experience using Wasabi?
That's another one I just found out about.
I had not heard of Wasabi, but thanks for sharing! Seems like the cheapest one so far.
Sorry for posting to an old topic, but in case someone is still looking... Wasabi now has a similar price range competitor Storadera. The pricing model is quite similar, but they don't round up the usage to 1 Tb if you only need a few hundred gigs. They also give 50 Gb for free atm.
Hey,
You can try Cloud4U storage. We use their file share and collaboration platform. It's perfect if you'd like to have programmatic access via API. Good luck!
How much space do you need? If it's large enough getting a cheap dedicated server with 4-8 TB drives can beat any cloud rates.
I would say your options would be
https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/ - starting at $5/mo at 250GB space. Comes with 1TB outbound traffic
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/ - same pricing as Linode
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html - 250GB occupied space + 1TB download traffic would cost you about $11.25/mo
Have you checked OVH, they are usually quiet cheap and easy to use:
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/storage/
Amazon S3 is pretty darn cheap. Granted the interface is sucky, but you can get clients like Transmit or CloudBerry Explorer which can turn it into a familiar looking file explorer.
As someone else mentioned - you can look at Digital Ocean's Spaces, which is API compatible with S3, or else I also have a subscription to Wasabi - https://wasabi.com/ which is also S3 compatible that seems quite cheap.
Maybe Googles cloud Storage would be Worth a try?
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