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David. said...

In his talk at DSA David Borland of Wasabi focused on a point that I should have made in the "Cloud" section of the talk. It is extraordinarily difficult to budget for cloud storage in general because everything you do is charged, not just storage. I mentioned egress fees and minimum object lifetimes, but there are API call fees, minimum chargeable object sizes, and may others. Many cloud storage users report blowing their budgets because they didn't predict the additional fees, which can easily exceed the raw storage cost. My crude estimates of archival storage costs are likely way too low for all services.

Mar 24, 2025, 2:33:53 PM

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