"I deleted a few TBs of data from s3

cost me $270

to **delete** data"

^ what a time to be alive.

EDIT: note that it's quoted text, extracted from a post in Elmo's playground

NOTE (again): I DON'T USE S3 xD

@esoriano I would have simply have not updated my credit card when it expired and closed my account and ignored all their emails.

It may seem extreme but actually I've managed to do it all by accident so it can't be that hard.

@uastronomer @esoriano Clever. Also a way to get out of a psychiatric ward โ€“just declare that you've cancelled your insurance. They can't get you out of the door quick enough!

@esoriano

In other news, a man and his company, recently held liable for his fraudulent business practices, continues to commit fraud?

@esoriano Drill's a lot cheaper.

@esoriano I don't quite understand.

With your choice for the #cloud, you have deliberately opted in to pay for file operations that are usually for free or much, much cheaper when done with local storage. ๐Ÿคท

As if nobody would have warned you.

@esoriano

We delete data from s3 all the time in pretty sure it doesn't cost extra. They probably charged you for the storage.

@Xucaen @esoriano you'll have different cost if you have a lot of small files vs a few big files. API calls billing makes things a little surreal sometimes.
@esoriano An external SSD doesn't cost very much.
#decloud
I currently have a webserver running from my home, and I'm about to have another.
Soon my DropBox will be empty. I could, if I wanted, easily host my files on the web for the cost of a $30 computer on a chip.
@esoriano i believe this can be done with a single --recursive delete. I deleted hundreds of millions of objects and never paid so much..if you do it via individual delete object calls in the web interface it would take days and cost this much, but.. why?