[stingraycharles]

I happen to be consulting for a few large companies that do massive data operations (in the petabyte scale), and I can tell you that “cloud spend” is generally treated as one big blob of money. They don’t really look too much into the details, as the people who care about this (the purchasing department) rarely knows what’s actually driving the costs.

As such, the insane pricing of storage on the clouds rarely comes on the radar, unless you have a “competent” company (I know the fintech companies generally are more clueful about this).