AWS S3 egress fees are a tax on your own storage. Move 10TB out of S3 and you pay $921 — just in egress. Columbia Colocation's S3-compatible storage is priced flat by capacity. Same API. Drop-in replacement. From $7/mo for 500GB.
| Factor | Columbia Colocation Quincy, WA | AWS S3 us-west-2 | Backblaze B2 Remote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage pricing (1TB) | $12/mo | $23/mo | $6/mo |
| Data transfer | Flat — ask us | $0.09/GB | $0.01/GB (first 3x storage free) |
| API compatibility | S3-compatible | Native S3 | S3-compatible |
| Location | Quincy, WA (local to PNW) | us-west-2 (Oregon) | Sacramento / Amsterdam |
| Latency to Seattle | 10–20ms | 20–35ms | 30–50ms |
| Latency to colo clients | Sub-millisecond | 20–35ms | 30–50ms |
| Data sovereignty | Washington State · ISP-operated | US but cloud-operated | California / Netherlands |
| Minimum storage | Free tier (100MB) | None (pay per GB) | None (pay per GB) |
Most S3 customers don't think about egress until they need to restore. Ransomware hits your office — you need to restore 8TB from S3. AWS bill: $737 just in egress, plus your compute time to restore. Our storage plans are priced flat by capacity — contact us for current data transfer terms before you need them in a crisis.
If it talks to AWS S3, it talks to us. No code changes, no new client libraries, no migration pain. Change the endpoint URL in your config — that's the entire migration.
Every plan includes S3-compatible API access and no minimum retention periods. SMB/NFS file storage available at the same tiers — ask us.
Enterprise 20TB plan at $200/mo. Custom sizing available for larger deployments.
Tell us how much you need and what tools you're using — we'll get you credentials and an endpoint to configure.