AWS already offers free egress when migrating data:
the PetaGene guys on theirs blog are excited too, sounds like both teams share the same goal so they decide to merge and thats it.
i would love to use it, just give me 10% space of every TB i add to the network, it could be also used as a tool for SNOs to reveal all theirs nodes to get more free space and traffic for “Storj’s dropbox”
That’s interesting. It seems they have just started this offer recently:
We believe this choice must include the one to migrate your data to another cloud provider or on-premises. That’s why, starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges when you want to move outside of AWS.
Over 90 percent of our customers already incur no data transfer expenses out of AWS because we provide 100 gigabytes per month free from AWS Regions to the internet. This includes traffic from Amazon EC2, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Application Load Balancer, among others. In addition, we offer one terabyte of free data transfer out of Amazon CloudFront every month.
If you need more than 100 gigabytes of data transfer out per month while transitioning, you can contact AWS Support to ask for free DTO rates for the additional data. It’s necessary to go through support because you make hundreds of millions of data transfers each day, and we generally do not know if the data transferred out to the internet is a normal part of your business or a one-time transfer as part of a switch to another cloud provider or on premises.
We will review requests at the AWS account level. Once approved, we will provide credits for the data being migrated. We don’t require you to close your account or change your relationship with AWS in any way. You’re welcome to come back at any time.
This could be quite interesting information for Storj marketing to announce that customers can migrate without costs from AWS and it sounds like an interesting point to make when talking to customers.
But of course not every potential new customer is on AWS, hence my marketing suggestion for free migration and egress. By time limited free egress I also mean free egress on Storj DCS for a limited time for customers who make a fast choice to switch to Storj DCS.
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