[hipadev23]

I know block storage backends is all the rage, but this is about the most capital intensive thing you can do on the major cloud providers. Storage and reads are cheap, but writes and list operations are insanely expensive.

Once you hook these backends up to real-time streaming updates, transactions, heavy indexing, or immutable backends that cause constant churn (hive/hudi/iceberg/delta lake), you're in for a bad time financially.