Know your archive works
before you need it.
Flat $4.99/TB. No egress, no retrieval tax — so testing a restore doesn't cost you anything extra.
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Archives go untested, and the retrieval bill is a surprise.
Standard archive storage gives you low write cost and a retrieval fee every time you check on it. Neither makes for a serious long-retention plan.
Nobody tests a restore that costs money.
Retrieval fees turn a routine restore drill into a budget request. Most archives are never actually restored until the day they're needed — by then, a broken export script or a misconfigured lifecycle rule is a crisis, not a fire drill.
Testing your archive costs money.
Glacier-tier storage charges per-GB retrieval plus egress on every restore. A single annual test of 10 TB costs over $1,000 on AWS. Teams stop testing their archives — not because they do not need to, but because the bill makes them.
Disaster recovery events are expensive on metered tiers.
A large restore event — the one you actually need the archive for — is a large retrieval and egress event. The cost arrives at the worst possible time. A flat-rate archive has no such moment.
100 TB archive. One 10 TB restore per year.
Same archive workload, five providers. Monthly storage cost and the cost of one annual 10 TB restore.
- 100 TB / mo
- $2,304
- Retrieval + egress
- $0.09/GB egress
- Restore 10 TB
- $922
- 100 TB / mo
- $2,355
- Retrieval + egress
- $0.03 + $0.09/GB
- Restore 10 TB
- $1,229
- 100 TB / mo
- $101
- Retrieval + egress
- $0.02 + $0.09/GB
- Restore 10 TB
- $1,126
- 100 TB / mo
- $699
- Retrieval + egress
- $0
- Restore 10 TB
- $0
- 100 TB / mo
- $499
- Retrieval + egress
- $0
- Restore 10 TB
- $0
| Provider | 100 TB / mo | Retrieval + egress | Restore 10 TB |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS S3 Standard | $2,304 | $0.09/GB egress | $922 |
| AWS Glacier Instant | $2,355 | $0.03 + $0.09/GB | $1,229 |
| AWS Glacier Deep Archive | $101 | $0.02 + $0.09/GB | $1,126 |
| Wasabi | $699 | $0 | $0 |
| Fil One You | $499 | $0 | $0 |
AWS S3 Standard and Glacier rates from public US rate card Q2 2026. S3 Standard storage: tiered $0.023/$0.022/GB; Glacier Instant $0.023/GB; Glacier Deep Archive $0.00099/GB. Retrieval: Deep Archive $0.02/GB + $0.09/GB egress. Restore cost computed: 10,240 GB × stated rates. Wasabi $6.99/TB. Fil One $4.99/TB, $0 retrieval, $0 egress.
Always restorable. Retrieval included.
No archive tier, no retrieval bill, no wait to get your data back.
No archive-tier wait
Objects are readable the instant you request them — no rehydration delay like Glacier's retrieval tiers. A restore starts immediately.
No retrieval tax
$0 to read back the archive. Restore testing, partial recovery, and audit reads are included in flat storage pricing.
Object Lock for compliance
Configure retention from 1 day to 100 years at the bucket level, for records that must not be altered or deleted early.
S3-compatible restore
Standard GetObject and multipart download. Any tool that reads S3 restores from Fil One without modification.
An archive you can actually test.
Free 1 TB evaluation. Write your archive and restore it — at zero retrieval cost.
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