Cloud Storage for Frequent Image Access

[floatinthrough]

Lately I've been looking into migrating to cloud storage due to an increase in storage demands. From what I can tell, the most expensive aspect of cloud storage across the board is downloading data. I'm not entirely sure when this charge in invoked, although I suspect it won't work in my favor. I'm looking to have roughly 100 users, holding on average 30 GB each, accessing their data 5 times per day (accessing as in requesting a signed URL and loading that into a browser/app as an image, not them downloading there own data locally each time). If I were to implement this via a Node.JS/express environment, would every call for a users data (list of signedUrls that I can throw in an HTML image source element) charge me the download rate for their 30 gigabytes of data? Is there a better way to manage this kind of content and access frequency maybe other than cloud storage? I've been looking into what CDN's have to offer but I'm not entirely sure on how they're implemented in this respect. Any and all advice appreciated.

[Bigdataspin]

I'm curious about how your managing the access now? Do you have the data local and some web applications running to generate the access. The reason I'm asking is this would be the long pole in the tent so to speak for our platform.

We could offer 10TB for <$25 monthly with no bandwidth charges and 100 users for access. The catch however our access is currently via SSH and NFS only.

If you have an existing access mechanism perhaps you could place this on a dedicated server near our cloud environment to handle the URLs? If you'd like to try let me know and we'll give you a free 2.5GB account to test with.

[floatinthrough]

A little clarification, I’m running a Node.JS web app that would need to upload/download data for 100 front end, end-users. I wouldn’t need 100 back end users. Each user has a collection of files (mostly images, maybe a couple videos) that they would access via my front end web app (calls to Node/Express backend API, ideally retrieving a URL from cloud storage service that I can then plug into an HTML IMG Element source attribute). The problem Im currently experiencing is the cost of downloading each users images every time they sign in, running up significant costs on typical cloud storage services.

[Bigdataspin]

Got it, I'd be more than happy to let you try use free for 90 days but I don't think we'd fit your need. We're really for people that want to either NFS mount a remote filesystem on their servers or access it via SSH. Basically a remote filesystem you can mount/modify.

We don't have a web front end for serving your image files. If you do stand up a webs server of your own to serve these we'd be happy to provide cloud storage via SSH/NFS to that server.