214.7 GB: a year of S3 versus one USB disk

Lab reconstruction / anonymized. Not a customer testimonial. No star ratings.

The library is the earlier lab sets scaled just past 200 GB, not a round fiction. 41,208 stills, 1,204 videos.

Pricing date is in the JSON: 2026-03-08. S3 list prices move. This page is a snapshot. PUT for ~40k objects is cents at list; relisting the whole bucket every hour is a different invoice.

A disk also fails, gets dropped, and lives in one room. S3 has more than one AZ and also has stolen keys and surprise bills. This page does not pick a winner. The Chinese sibling uses COS Guangzhou list price and a JD.com disk; same method, local numbers.