<story><title>Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregrata</author><text>The key words you probably need to look at are &amp;quot;multi-petabyte&amp;quot;.  Not saying they shouldn&amp;#x27;t be doing something but it all costs - and at multi-petabytes, it cooooosts&lt;p&gt;1 Petabyte (and they have multiple)
S3 - $30,000 a month, $360,000 a year&lt;p&gt;S3 - reduced redundancy - $24,000 a month, $288,000 a year&lt;p&gt;S3 - infrequent access - $13,100 a month, $157,000 a year&lt;p&gt;Glacier - $7340 a month - $88,000 a year</text></item><item><author>ummonk</author><text>What the hell. It is so easy to configure multi-region glacier backups, mfa delete, etc. for a single S3 bucket. Took me like a couple hours to setup versioning and backups, and a few days to setup mfa for admin actions. Why would they not set this stuff up?</text></item><item><author>zxcvbn4038</author><text>I used to work at Tumblr, the entirety of their user content is stored in a single multi-petabyte AWS S3 bucket, in a single AWS account, no backup, no MFA delete, no object versioning. It is all one fat finger away from oblivion.</text></item><item><author>mellow-lake-day</author><text>&amp;gt;Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don&amp;#x27;t trust the platforms to archive your data.&lt;p&gt;This also goes for Google Drive, Dropbox, and many other websites (if not all)&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@jancurn&amp;#x2F;how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-deleted-my-8000-photos-cb7dcf13647b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@jancurn&amp;#x2F;how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-d...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;9kgwnp&amp;#x2F;porn-on-google-drive-error&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;9kgwnp&amp;#x2F;porn-on-go...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dropbox-under-fire-for-dmca-takedown-of-personal-folders-but-fears-are-vastly-overblown&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dropbox-under-fire-for-dmca-ta...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zxcvbn4038</author><text>Add in transit and cdn and Tumblr’s AWS bill was seven figures a month. A bunch of us wanted to build something like Facebook’s haystack do away with S3 altogether, but the idea kept getting killed because of concerns over all the places the S3 URLs were hard coded and also breaking 3rd party links to content in the bucket (for years you could link to the bucket directly - still can for content more then a couple years old)</text></comment>
<story><title>Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregrata</author><text>The key words you probably need to look at are &amp;quot;multi-petabyte&amp;quot;.  Not saying they shouldn&amp;#x27;t be doing something but it all costs - and at multi-petabytes, it cooooosts&lt;p&gt;1 Petabyte (and they have multiple)
S3 - $30,000 a month, $360,000 a year&lt;p&gt;S3 - reduced redundancy - $24,000 a month, $288,000 a year&lt;p&gt;S3 - infrequent access - $13,100 a month, $157,000 a year&lt;p&gt;Glacier - $7340 a month - $88,000 a year</text></item><item><author>ummonk</author><text>What the hell. It is so easy to configure multi-region glacier backups, mfa delete, etc. for a single S3 bucket. Took me like a couple hours to setup versioning and backups, and a few days to setup mfa for admin actions. Why would they not set this stuff up?</text></item><item><author>zxcvbn4038</author><text>I used to work at Tumblr, the entirety of their user content is stored in a single multi-petabyte AWS S3 bucket, in a single AWS account, no backup, no MFA delete, no object versioning. It is all one fat finger away from oblivion.</text></item><item><author>mellow-lake-day</author><text>&amp;gt;Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don&amp;#x27;t trust the platforms to archive your data.&lt;p&gt;This also goes for Google Drive, Dropbox, and many other websites (if not all)&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@jancurn&amp;#x2F;how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-deleted-my-8000-photos-cb7dcf13647b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@jancurn&amp;#x2F;how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-d...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;9kgwnp&amp;#x2F;porn-on-google-drive-error&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;9kgwnp&amp;#x2F;porn-on-go...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dropbox-under-fire-for-dmca-takedown-of-personal-folders-but-fears-are-vastly-overblown&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dropbox-under-fire-for-dmca-ta...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ummonk</author><text>88k per year per petabyte is a small price to pay to protect your entire business from being wiped out.</text></comment>