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It's more of the fact that S3 is expensive for storing lots of data, isn't it? I think tarsnap charges only a small margin on top of S3.



And tarsnap possibly uses the most expensive tier of S3:

> the original version, which can survive the loss of 2 datacenters, not the "reduced redundancy" version which can only survive the loss of a single datacenter

These days, there's not just reduced redundancy, but also infrequent access, which seems better for backups…




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