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NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off

John Robson Silver badge

At that scale

You're already going to be getting most of the benefits of scale associated with being "cloudy" anyway, even if you run it in house.

What's the annual storage budget for that, I bet most of use could plan some hardware (including power costs and disk replacements) that would cope for 5 years and pay a healthy salary for a (small) team to look after it.

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