STILL A WIP

TL;DR

The main takeaway from this is that if your research data is made up of many millions of small files inside of millions of directories, then between the expense and complexity, you may be better off keeping your data on Engram, and letting Research Computing handle the backups.

Some Cloud Storage Provider Options and Pricing as of 11/2020 - Trade-offs will be in terms of storage cost, API cost and restore speed

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