[dogismycopilot]

Filestore is also really expensive for what is basically just NFS.

[ethbro]

Managed services are generally for enterprise, where you're fully costing out support + security mitigation.

Eliminating team coordination tips the balance.

[geerlingguy]

EFS is... surprisingly cheap, as long as you don’t need heavy sustained IO for more than a few hours at a time. Great for a simple file store and some big data purposes.