Last time I priced it out, Backblaze was more expensive per GB — note that I'm using Glacier Deep Archive, which is something like an order of magnitude less expensive than plain Glacier-backed buckets.
It also incurs a delay of at least 6-12 hours before the first byte of retrieval occurs, when you need to restore. So there are tradeoffs for the price.
Oh, I see. I'm shamefully ignorant about everything concerning backups, so I just googled "Amazon S3 Glacier" and compared some numbers that pop up to some other providers.
> a delay of at least 6-12 hours before the first byte of retrieval occurs
Huh. I wonder how it actually works behind the curtains. Do hey actually use HDDs to store all of that, or maybe is there some physical work involved in these 12 hours to retrieve a tape-drive from the archive…
