Amazon’s cold storage offering – Glacier – had caught my attention before as a potential safe and extraordinarily cheap solution for offsite server backups. I never really got to test it as I found its pricing model complex to digest and was somewhat put off by the cold storage limitations.
When evaluating alternatives, Google’s Nearline storage stood out for its simpler pricing and faster access. Here’s a high-level overview of the backup flow:
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