You can get an 80 TB Snowball to use for 10 days for $250, and pay a minor shipping charge to get it to and from the AWS datacenter. That's not free but its cheap enough that it should be a tiny decimal point percentage of the value of the 80 TB of business data you can fit on the Snowball.
And yes Snowball goes both ways: you can get data into AWS or out of AWS.
And how many businesses have 80TB of valuable data that is valuable when it's offline for potentially weeks while it's moved onto the snowball, shipped, taken off of the snowball, and then converted into a usable format onsite?
Ignoring the fact you lose all metadata transferring via snowball and any ACLs depending on the type of data and where you pulled it from. You can't pull from anything BUT S3 either. So that database? Sorry, online. The Glacier archive? Going to have to rehydrate it first.
The $250 is a rounding error for sure, but not on the cost of the data, on the cost of restoring the data. Even S3 itself you're ignoring the fact that you've got $2,500 in transfer fees alone on that 80TB.
