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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Cloud Storage

Bookmarks

  1. Amazon Glacier: Ultra-Low-Cost Archival Storage

    Amazon Glacier launched in 2012 as an ultra-low-cost archival storage service at $0.01/GB/month — an order of magnitude cheaper than S3. The tradeoff was retrieval latency of hours, not milliseconds, making it purely for cold data.

  2. Google Outs Google Drive: The Details

    Google accidentally launched Google Drive via its French blog in April 2012 — a 5GB free cloud storage service directly competing with Dropbox. The comment in the original bookmark ('the sound of Dropbox share price hitting the floor') captures the competitive dread the moment triggered.

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