Why should you backup Amazon S3 storage? Amazon arranges all this for me, right? For the sake of argument, we assume that you save your backup data at Amazon in S3 storage. If you have active data or VMs there, you should definitely take an (extra) backup.

We have a lot of trouble figuring out how Amazon stores data and how it is arranged. So we assume that you would like to have your backup data in 2 geographically separated locations. Amazon has no possibility to store your data in the Netherlands, but in Europe we see Frankfurt, Paris and Stockholm as possible EU countries.

The cost of the S3 storage in Frankfurt is approximately $ 25 per TB per month, and there are additional costs such as PUT GET LIST and data traffic.

If you want to put 1 TB of data in 2 locations with Amazon S3, you will have to pay at least $ 50 per TB.

What you can do when using Amazon S3 storage is the following:

You take the desired data from Amazon S3 and store it in location “Frankfurt”, you will then spent about $ 25 per TB. In addition, the network costs and the various other costs.

Then you take a subscription with us and you place a copy of the data from Amazon at our location, the costs with us are € 9.- for the basic subscription including 1TB of data. Extra data (1TB) costs € 4,- p/m. There are no network costs with us.

In this way you spent less money and perhaps the most important: You also exclude Amazon as a risk factor, you have transferred your backup data to 2 different companies at 2 different locations on 2 different types of servers.

Then a nice extra: When you take a subscription with us, the OBM license is included, you can choose to run Amazon’s backup job on our server (Client less), but you also have the option of Run OBM software on your server, for example. The OBM client is the extended client so you can basically backup everything with it, such as the fileserver, NAS, Exchange, SQL or Office 365 mailboxes etc.

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