# The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672
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**Created:** [June 2, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672 "2023-06-02T18:15:26Z")
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### Author: ![hexa](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/hexa/32/1300_2.png) [@hexa](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/hexa)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2023, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672/77 "2023-06-04T10:54:17Z")

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> [@edolstra](#):
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> Moreover, that $32K is a worst case that only happens if we decide to move _all_ of the binary cache out of S3 and we have to pay for it. There are much cheaper scenarios, e.g. we stay on S3 and we garbage-collect the binary cache.

I think staying in such a financially hostile environment is misguided, irrespective of whether we reduce our overall storage requirements or not. The egress quirk at AWS S3 is egregious at best.

In general, I think we should pay for our mission-critical infrastructure, and that means finding a sustainable partner.

The best idea to tackle the immediate problem, I find, is Backblaze B2 and their [egress fee waiver](https://www.backblaze.com/b2/c2c-migration.html), if you transfer more than 10 TB and stay for at least 12 months. Their overall storage cost is also much lower and egress costs to Fastly don’t exist, because both of them are part of the [bandwidth alliance](https://www.backblaze.com/b2/solutions/content-delivery.html).

Also, I really wish we had two threads, one for solving the immediate problem, and one for discussing long-term solutions. This thread is really long and noisy, and lacks coherence because of that.

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