Updraft Plus used 85% of S3 Free Tier put requests in one go

[madhouse.updraftParticipant]

From Amazon:

“Your AWS account redacted has exceeded 85% of the usage limit for one or more AWS Free Tier-eligible services for the month of August.

AWS Free Tier Usage as of 08/19/2018 AWS Free Tier Usage Limit
2,000 Requests 2,000 Put Requests of Amazon S3″

This was the first such backup we did on this website, whose webroot consists of approximately 18GB of files and images, and the database alone is over 20MB.

The Zipfile size limit was left alone at 400MB

#1 why so many put requests?

#2 can something be done to mitigate this catastrophic usage for a single backup? Bear in mind that they are saying we used 85% of our resource limit for the MONTH in one go…

[udadminKeymaster]

webroot consists of approximately 18GB of files and images

In that case, you won’t fit in their free tier anyway, as that only provides 5G of storage (“Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage in the Standard Storage class”).

An HTTP PUT call is needed/made for approximately each chunk 5MB of data that is sent to Amazon. This is the underlying S3 protocol for sending large chunks of data.

2,000 PUT requests will cost you $0.01 – https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?nc1=h_ls . Note that that’s an order of magnitude less than their charges for the actual storage itself. Is Amazon charging you $0.01 every time you make a backup really ‘catastrophic’ ?

David

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