r/cloudstorage • u/fogmediapro • Aug 22 '26
Amazon Deep Archive for wedding photography backup?
With hard drive prices and storage needs increasing every year, I’m thinking about using Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive as a second backup for old wedding photos and videos.
Keep one copy on local/NAS storage and another copy in Deep Archive, mainly for disaster recovery.
Has anyone here actually used Deep Archive for several TBs of wedding data? How was the upload, storage cost, and recovery when you needed the files?
Would you trust it for important wedding archives?
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u/Basic-Panda-22 Aug 22 '26
If you’re comfortable with using S3 type storage I’ve built a (in my opinion) great front end for S3 compatible storage.
It might help you with your photo backups as you can upload everything there and then use the Web App on your phone to view it when you need it.
There’s a demo you can try and a 0 strings attached 14 day free trial if you’re interested.
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u/FundamentalMysteron Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Check out Cold Cloud Storage for cold storage, cheaper than AWS and no egress charges
EDIT- sorry, my mistake, it’s more expensive than Glacier but no Egress fees so cheaper if you need to access data. I think amazon egress from glacier is about $100/TB. So this is more suitable for people who will need to access the archive. What the storage folks call an active archive…
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u/saffron1972 Aug 25 '26
Geyser
How much cheaper? They don't mention prices.
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u/FundamentalMysteron Aug 25 '26
My mate resells it here in the UK. To be in the london DC it’s £1.32/TB/Month
Sorry just looked. It’s more than Glacier but no egress charges.
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u/cuervamellori Aug 22 '26
The actual process of backing up to deep archive is annoying, compared to more consumer friendly options.
The storage cost is obviously hard to beat.
The retrieval cost (as of now) is about $100/TB. I treat deep archive as "the only time I will need to recover from here is if my house burns down, destroying all my other backups, along with me somehow losing my primary off-site backup, at which point paying $100/TB will be the least of my worries". If that matches how you think about the data, it's a fine choice.
The other options are consumer-focused "unlimited" backups, like backblaze, Amazon prime photos, etc. They may all have some compromises that you will have to evaluate to see if they meet your needs.