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.
- Tier
- Hot
- Storage / mo
- $1,178
- 5 TB restore
- $461
- Catch
- Egress on every restore
- Tier
- Cold (instant)
- Storage / mo
- $205
- 5 TB restore
- $512
- Catch
- Retrieval + egress fees
- Tier
- Archive
- Storage / mo
- $51
- 5 TB restore
- $563
- Catch
- +12 h restore wait
- Tier
- Hot
- Storage / mo
- $350
- 5 TB restore
- $0
- Catch
- 90-day minimum retention
- Tier
- Hot
- Storage / mo
- $250
- 5 TB restore
- $0
- Catch
- No retrieval. No egress.
| 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 One You | 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.
Recover a workload when the primary is gone
Pull every byte back. Standard S3 GET. No retrieval line item, no egress charge — the bill for the worst day is the same as the bill for any other day.
5 TB full restore
Test the restore plan as often as it should be tested
Most DR plans go untested because each drill costs real money. Free retrieval means quarterly — or monthly — drills cost what they should: nothing.
Cost per drill (1 TB pull)
Annualised (4 drills)
Pull back a single file without a retrieval ticket
Tape and archive tiers tax small restores the same as full ones. Hot, S3-compatible storage means a single file recovery is a single GET — for $0.
1 GB single-file restore
Compliance and ransomware protections, built in
Object Lock in Compliance or Governance mode. Per-object retention periods. Versioning. Ransomware can't overwrite or delete what is locked.
Lock modes
Retention granularity
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.
A backup target you'll actually test.
Free 1 TB evaluation. Point Veeam, Restic, MSP360, or any S3 client at the endpoint.
No credit card required · No retrieval fees · S3-compatible