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• Gleb Budman Backblaze - Cloud Storage &… • 7K followers Our SVP of Cloud Operations (and wine aficionado), Christopher Opat, was interviewed on the TCP Talks podcast. Surprisingly, they didn't seem to talk much about wine. Un-surprisingly, they did talk egress fees, AI, and more. Their key takeaways: * The Egress Fee Backlash is Real: Hyperscaler “free egress” offers come with significant strings attached, validating alternative providers’ criticism of these practices. * AI Changes Everything: Traditional storage patterns don’t apply to AI workloads. Providers must offer both massive bandwidth and flexible data lifecycle management. * Hybrid Cloud is the Future: Customers want to use best-of-breed solutions, not be locked into a single provider’s ecosystem. * Compliance Complexity is Growing: Data sovereignty isn’t just about location—it’s about network paths, audit trails, and provable data destruction. https://lnkd.in/g5vndP2T