Cloud Storage Insights for Engineering Teams

S3 architecture, AI workload bottlenecks, migration patterns and cost optimisation — analysis from working storage practitioners.

Object storage solves 2 Gbps transfer limits

Moving 130 TB of Pi digits took two weeks at 2 Gbps. See why object storage beats local RAID for preserving massive computational artifacts.

Dec 1, 2025

Alex Kumar 15 min read

Regional availability data stops bad deployments now

Stop manual checks. Use S3 Access Points to query regional data directly and cut storage costs to 2 cents per GB today.

Nov 1, 2025

Alex Kumar 14 min read

Failure domains break multicloud: The 15-hour truth

The 15-hour AWS outage proved multicloud is often theater. Learn why 92% of strategies fail due to hidden control plane dependencies.

Oct 20, 2025

Alex Kumar 12 min read

FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering: Tier the Data, Not Hardware

FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering for SAS Grid: the 70% is price-performance vs cloud Lustre, not a discount. What actually saves money, and the metadata ceili

May 1, 2025

Alex Kumar 11 min read