I'm not seeing this at all for my use case. Unless I've figured it wrong, if I were to use this for an offsite backup of my photos, my ISP's Acceptable Use Poli

I'm not seeing this at all for my use case. Unless I've figured it wrong, if I were to use this for an offsite backup of my photos, my ISP's Acceptable Use Policy limits my rate enough that I'm seeing only about a 10% penalty beyond normal transfer costs. See http://n.exts.ch/2012/08/aws_glacier_for_photo_backups http://n.exts.ch/2012/08/aws_glacier_for_photo_backups for some sample "real-world" numbers.