I have several TB of borg backups. Uploaded them on backblaze b2. I could immediately see how much resources i was using, how many api calls, and so on. Very easy to see and predict the next bill. I can see exactly which bucket uses more resource, and which is growing over time.

Because I’m cheap, I want to upload those files on aws glacier, which theoretically costs a quarter of b2 for storage, but API calls are extremely expensive. So I want to know the details. I won’t like to get a bill with $5 in storage and $500 in API calls.

Uploaded a backup, but nowhere in AWS I can see how much resources i am using, how much I’m going to pay, how many API calls, how much the user XYZ spent, and so on.

It looks like it’s designed for an approach like “just use our product freely, don’t worry about pricing, it’s a problem for the financial department of your company”.

In AWS console I found “s3 storage lens”, but it says i need to delegate the access to someone else because reasons. Tried to create another user in my 1-user org, but after wasting 2 hours I wasn’t able to find a way to add those permissions.

Tried to create a dashboard in “AWS cost explorer” but all the indicators are null or zero.

So, how can I see how many API calls and storage is used, to predict the final bill? Or the only way is to pray and wait the end of the month and hopefully there everything it’s itemized in detail?

  • nottelling@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    Glacier doesn’t bill on “API calls”. Only on storage and retrieval. Uploading into glacier is free, storing it is cheap. Moving it out is relatively expensive. Pulling a few TB out of glacier will be a couple hundred bucks or so. The calculator can tell you for sure.

    If you’re never going to touch the data, it’s a good option. If you plan on using it like a Google Drive alternative, it’s not a good option.

    If you’re pulling small amounts of data, such as a single backup or even a few individual files, it’s still not that expensive.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOPEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      S3 glacier definitely bills API calls, and are relatively expensive

      From this page, which feels designed to be confusing and unreadable on mobile: PUT, COPY, POST, LIST cost $0.05 for each 1.000 calls. So if you upload 100k files each week that’s $5. Same if the program asks detail on each file to see if it’s updated or not

      This user for example missed that part and got an expensive lesson https://noellh.com/blog/rclone-to-s3-glacier/