I chose B2 because, although I might be able to save some money with glacier deep archive, AWS pricing is so confusing that I feel like I'm gonna fuck it up and owe them a ton of money. B2 was much easier to understand and say let's go.
Is AWS intentionally making it confusing or is that just how they are able to make it cheap in specific use cases? Am I just dense? B2 has been great so far but ultimately I'd rather be paying $0.6/TB/month than $6/TB/month for my offsite backups.
I'm also considering the "at a friend's house" solution. Maybe there are even co-lo facilities for this kinda thing that could be competitive in my area. I'm more curious about cloud solutions than guerilla solutions though, so please let me know if you have any insight.
TL;DR: most cost effective cloud solution for data hoarding is desired, do you have it?