Storing data is cheap relative to moving it, and both lines grow quietly until someone looks. This playbook turns storage and egress from a recurring surprise into a set of rules you deploy once and benefit from every month, across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and OCI.
What is inside
A practical, vendor-neutral reference with the numbers and rules that actually move the bill.
- Object storage tiers across the four clouds, and the access-frequency logic for choosing them
- The lifecycle policy rules we deploy, with worked examples
- The egress map: where data-transfer charges come from, internal and external
- Inter-region and inter-zone traffic: the largest hidden line, and how to cut it
- CDN and caching patterns that keep repeated reads off the expensive boundary
- Snapshots, backups and replication: buying only the resilience you need
- Retention policy and data gravity: the strategic cost most teams ignore
Who it is for
Platform and data engineering leaders who own the storage and transfer lines, and FinOps practitioners who need a repeatable way to keep them down. Everything here runs on data and controls you already have.
This playbook is the downloadable companion to our complete guide to cloud storage and data cost optimization. Read the guide for the narrative; download the playbook for the tier tables and lifecycle rules.
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