From the very top, this is great analysis. I wonder if they are willing to strike a deal if you need relatively high egress, but very low storage. Also, I do expect that Backblaze's lifetime egress costs per drive far exceed the TCO for the drive (minus egress). Zero trolling: It would great to see some commentary directly from Backblaze on this matter -- for example, explain that egress is very expensive.
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Above, you wrote that egress is 10 USD / TB. What are egress costs for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft?
EDIT
Above, you wrote that egress is 10 USD / TB. What are egress costs for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft?