Our current setup has 2x Cores, 1 at our DataCenter and the other at our headoffice. Each Core has a repository size of around 15-16TB being used and the repositories on each core replicate to each other. This gives us our online and offsite backups. We also have 5 archive jobs that are scheduled called Monday-Friday, with each archiving off between 5-6 servers, generally VMs, which then get copied to 5 tapes, this gives us the offline portion of the backups. Each archive uses around 3.3TBs of disk space.
Now the question is, i'd like to investigate adding some online storage to this as well e.g. doing an archive to Amazon S3 or Azure. Is the archive option to online storage the best option, can i replicate incremental/base backups to the online storage instead when they are done? What's the best way to determine pricing, i can see pricing by size but also wants details like number of SENDS and GETS and READs, which i'm confused about how to calculate that?