Cheapest online cloud storage option for photos and videos from AWS
Since the invention of Smartphones every ones is taking photos and videos everyday and amount of storage needed to store all this data for a long term is becoming major headache for most. If you are looking for cheapest way to store your massive huge digital library of photos and videos I want to present you an option. There is an option on Amazon Web Services (AWS) called S3 Glacier deep archive storage. This is as cheap as $0.00099/GB as of writing this article. At this rate it will cost you less than ONE dollar per month to store 1TB of storage. This is possibly the cheapest option available if you do research online.
Go to https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ to find out more on latest costs.
But there are some caveats though you cannot retrieve objects in this method quickly it might take up to 10 hours. If you are going to use this option just as a extreme emergency option to restore any lost original size photos and videos then it is good. You might encounter some initial cost to upload thousands of photos and videos but once they are uploaded then monthly charge will be less than $1 per month. Also AWS charges retrieval fee if you ever want to get files from cloud.
AWS S3 Storage Pricing
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