Longaccess uses AWS Glacier too (a combination of S3 and Glacier, actually). The added value comes from a couple of features, like:
- making the use of Glacier friendlier to the average user
- providing a well defined way of accessing the data (retrieval, decryption, etc.). This is very useful if, for example, you want the files to be retrieved by your children in a couple of decades
- making a commitment to take care of the data for decades: if Amazon decides in 10 years that they are no longer interested in being in this business, we will move the data to an alternative provider, but nothing will change for our users.
Our main product is not storage, in the same way that a bank's main product is neither steel nor vaults.
We just use a reliable technology. AFAIK Amazon is not in the business of preserving data for decades, but they are great at storing data. On the other hand, Longaccess' business is to preserve private data for decades, and using the best underlying technologies and services at each given point in time to do so.
Forgive me. Techcrunch wrongly refers to your product as cold storage and sensationalized falsities. Your website has no such claims and seems like a worthwhile product. I wish you luck and success.
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Longaccess uses AWS Glacier too (a combination of S3 and Glacier, actually). The added value comes from a couple of features, like:
- making the use of Glacier friendlier to the average user
- providing a well defined way of accessing the data (retrieval, decryption, etc.). This is very useful if, for example, you want the files to be retrieved by your children in a couple of decades
- making a commitment to take care of the data for decades: if Amazon decides in 10 years that they are no longer interested in being in this business, we will move the data to an alternative provider, but nothing will change for our users.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Longaccess.
So you pass your liabilities onto Amazon? Utterly ridiculous that I should have to have faith in Glacier when your storage is your main product.
Our main product is not storage, in the same way that a bank's main product is neither steel nor vaults.
We just use a reliable technology. AFAIK Amazon is not in the business of preserving data for decades, but they are great at storing data. On the other hand, Longaccess' business is to preserve private data for decades, and using the best underlying technologies and services at each given point in time to do so.
Forgive me. Techcrunch wrongly refers to your product as cold storage and sensationalized falsities. Your website has no such claims and seems like a worthwhile product. I wish you luck and success.