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You didn't take personnel cost into account. You will need at least two system administrators to look after those racks (even if remote hands to change faulty drives are in the monthly opex). It quickly takes you to surplus of 200k/year with current prices (which will rise another 50% in 5 years).

On the other hand, you may negotiate a very sizable discount from AWS for 10Pb storage for 5 years.



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