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		donky_cong on Jan 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS Storage Gateway So you are basically paying 125$+ to have S3 cached locally and get an iSCSI interface ?

nl on Jan 25, 2012 | [–]

Which is worth it.

The price of enterprise backup solutions is crazy.

nburger on Jan 25, 2012 | [–]

Note that the $125 "gateway" fee is minor compared with the storage/transfer fees themselves - $0.14/GB/month for storage, for example. At that rate, a small 5 TB volume is already $700/month.

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