When you go out of business, save each user's data separately and send them an access URL. The user can pay Amazon to retrieve it if they want it back.
It is infinitely better than your data just suddenly being deleted before you had a chance to get it. At least you get to decide if retrieving it is worth the cost. Also, you can "pay" for Glacier using time/patience because you can download 1gb/mo for free.
All that said I don't think Glacier is set up to deal with a situation where one party inserts a ton of data owned by many other parties, so this is all very theoretical, but IMO it would be great to have something like this.
If my data isn't worth $0.12/GB to me I can't see being too worked up either way.
After reading the pricing and FAQ a bit more, it looks like there will have to be a 3rd party in the middle. There doesn't seem to be a "reader pays" option in Glacier.
There. I registered data-morgue.com. Now, if I can just get a free week…
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This might be a use case for Amazon's Glacier.
When you go out of business, save each user's data separately and send them an access URL. The user can pay Amazon to retrieve it if they want it back.
Does Glacier support moving the frozen data from one account to another?
I doubt paying to retrieve your data would go over much better.
It is infinitely better than your data just suddenly being deleted before you had a chance to get it. At least you get to decide if retrieving it is worth the cost. Also, you can "pay" for Glacier using time/patience because you can download 1gb/mo for free.
All that said I don't think Glacier is set up to deal with a situation where one party inserts a ton of data owned by many other parties, so this is all very theoretical, but IMO it would be great to have something like this.
If my data isn't worth $0.12/GB to me I can't see being too worked up either way.
After reading the pricing and FAQ a bit more, it looks like there will have to be a 3rd party in the middle. There doesn't seem to be a "reader pays" option in Glacier.
There. I registered data-morgue.com. Now, if I can just get a free week…