Most of the customers and professional storage services providers, when evaluating total cost of ownership, they jump on the bandwagon of deep cold storage, like deep archive from AWS. They leave out the extraction/egress cost involved. Having just an expiry policy criteria to move the files/data from hot/warm storage to cold/glacier would be hit with surprisingly huge bills. It requires deep down analysis of usage pattern, importance/value of the files/data and whether if it requires to be archived. It will require a multi pronged approach with multi cloud storage data controllers strategy to mitigate the runaway costs.
Most of the customers and professional storage services providers, when evaluating total cost of ownership, they jump on the bandwagon of deep cold storage, like deep archive from AWS. They leave out the extraction/egress cost involved. Having just an expiry policy criteria to move the files/data from hot/warm storage to cold/glacier would be hit with surprisingly huge bills. It requires deep down analysis of usage pattern, importance/value of the files/data and whether if it requires to be archived. It will require a multi pronged approach with multi cloud storage data controllers strategy to mitigate the runaway costs.