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How I cut my monthly cloud storage bill in half - with 5 tough decisions


I was storing 60TB in the cloud, but endless support battles and rising costs forced me to rethink everything. These five changes cut my bill dramatically.

David Gewirtz/ZDNET Cloud storage costs exploded after unlimited plans vanished Backing up everything was expensive and unnecessary Five strategic changes saved over $1,200 per year This is a story of online data hoarding in the guise of best practices, where too much became way too much, and the seemingly simple task of maintaining backups became an on-call emergency response second job. Beyond the terabytes of networked VMs used for what we would now call AI agent development, I have all the video elements involved in producing fairly high-quality YouTube.

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