Restore without the
retrieval bill.
Flat $4.99/TB. No retrieval fees, no egress, no archive-tier wait. A hot, S3-compatible backup target you can actually afford to restore from.
No credit card required · No retrieval fees · S3-compatible
A backup you can't afford to restore isn't a backup.
Archive tiers win the storage-cost slide and lose the restore-cost conversation. By the time you need them, the bill is a new procurement event, the wait is measured in hours, and the DR drill nobody ran last quarter is now today's incident.
The bill arrives when you need the data.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive holds bytes at under $1 per TB-month. Beautiful invoice. Then the actual restore is $20 per TB retrieved, plus $90 per TB egress, plus a 12-hour wait. You priced the storage and bought the worst day of your year.
Restore costs the same as everyday reads.
S3 Standard restores instantly — and bills $90 per TB on the way out. A full-region restore on a 50 TB workload is several thousand dollars in egress alone, on top of the monthly storage line that was already the largest in your S3 invoice.
Drills get skipped because they cost.
Each drill is a charge. So drills slip. The runbook ages. The exact path that runs at 3am is the one path nobody has run, on the cloud, with the current bucket layout, since the last reorg. The DR plan exists only on paper.
Hold 50 TB. Restore 5 TB.
Standard DR scenario. The cheap-to-store columns get expensive the day you actually need the data.
| Provider | Tier | Storage / mo | 5 TB restore | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS S3 Standard | Hot | $1,178 | $461 | Egress on every restore |
| AWS Glacier Instant | Cold (instant) | $205 | $512 | Retrieval + egress fees |
| AWS Glacier Deep Archive | Archive | $51 | $563 | +12 h restore wait |
| Wasabi | Hot | $350 | $0 | 90-day minimum retention |
| Fil OneYou | Hot | $250 | $0 | No retrieval. No egress. |
AWS S3 Standard, Glacier Instant Retrieval, and Deep Archive rates from public US Q2 2026 rate cards. Restore line combines retrieval + egress for one 5 TB pull. Wasabi pricing assumes 90-day minimum retention met. Fil One is a flat-rate hot tier — no separate restore line.
Backups you'll test. Restores you'll trust.
A backup target priced like cold storage and behaving like hot storage.
Hot tier, not archive.
A backup target you can restore from at production read speed, using the same S3 SDK your backup software already speaks.
Restore latency
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Standard S3 GET — no thaw, no retrieval queue.
Restore throughput
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Parallel-read friendly. Saturates a tuned S3 client.
Object Lock & versioning
Available
Compliance and Governance modes. Per-object retention.
One rate. $4.99/TB/month.
That is the whole bill. No retrieval. No egress. No archive-tier sleight of hand. The number on the invoice is the rate times the TB you keep.
No credit card required · No retrieval fees · Connects in minutes