[hhsectech]

Eh? I've never had a problem moving data out of AWS.

Have people lost the ability to write export and backup scripts?

[interroboink]

My (peripheral) experience is that it is much cheaper to get data in than to get data out. When you have the amount of data being discussed — "Enterprise data. Going back years." — that can get very costly.

It's the amount of data where it makes more sense to put hard drives on a truck and drive across the country rather than send it over a network, where this becomes an issue (actually, probably a bit before then).

[fcarraldo]

AWS actually has a service for this - Snowmobile, a storage datacenter inside of a shipping container, which is driven to you on a semi truck. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

[Shorel]

Just in network costs, there's a huge asymmetry. Uploading data to AWS is free. Downloading data from them, you have to pay.

When you have enough data, that cost is quite significant.

[Draiken]

The ingress/egress cost is ridiculously high. Some companies don't care, but it is there and I've seen it catch people off guard multiple times.

[varjag]

Oh come on from the description both accounts could be sitting on the same datacenter LAN.

[mijoharas]

There's a cost for data egress (but not ingress)

[LadyCailin]

It’s the cost of data egress, which isn’t free.

[mciancia]

But there is no paid egress when we are moving data between account within one region, rigth?