Everyone Assumes Storage Is Infinite - What 11 Nines Durability Actually Means

https://highstylife.com/dealing-with-s3-eventual-consistency-before-the-2020-update-pragmatic-patterns-that-actually-worked/

Why teams keep hoarding data until it becomes a liability Most engineering teams treat cloud storage like a limitless bin: dump every log, snapshot, telemetry stream, and unstructured blob "just in case