Re: AWS or Microsoft storage

And we should make that clear- with the cloud providers I'm familiar with, there aren't ingress charges for writing to a cloud. Does anyone know of a cloud provider that is charging for this? That would be kind of crazy... :)

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On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 7:40 AM Clay Jackson (cjackson) < Clay.Jackson_at_quest.com> wrote:

> I use Oracle’s “archival” storage for about 500Gb (soon to be 1Tb) of
> “offsite backup” for my home systems – costs me $.02/month. At least with
> Oracle, there’s no “ingress” (write) charge and it’s reasonably fast, even
> over a 10Mbit Internet connection; but , retrieval costs $$ (forget the
> exact amount, I only test it every few months.
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> Traditionally, in the places that I have been, the tape backups of
> databases were sent over to companies like Iron Mountan. However, with
> Amazon or other companies offering storage cheap (I hear they only charge
> for reading not writing, true?), storing backups there is being floated as
> a possible solution. Has anyone here used Amazon or other such options for
> storing their DB backups. What are their experiences. Was data retrieval
> fast enough. Plus any risk related to security?
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> Ram.
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