>The hidden cost of storing data for Mastodon on S3 is the Requests. There are so many requests! I’m seeing about 40-50K requests per day!
There are S3-compatible object storage providers that have no per-request fees, and significantly lower bandwidth and storage fees. Examples – OVH, Scaleway.
I had an use case for object storage where my service would be uploading tens to hundreds of small objects per second, 24-7. Running some napkin math, it looked like AWS S3 costs for me would have been in the hundreds. I went with OVH, and have a €1 monthly bill for the object storage :-)
There are S3-compatible object storage providers that have no per-request fees, and significantly lower bandwidth and storage fees. Examples – OVH, Scaleway.
I had an use case for object storage where my service would be uploading tens to hundreds of small objects per second, 24-7. Running some napkin math, it looked like AWS S3 costs for me would have been in the hundreds. I went with OVH, and have a €1 monthly bill for the object storage :-)