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My cloud storage costs exploded after unlimited plans vanished.
Backing up everything was expensive and unnecessary.
Five strategic changes saved me over $1,200 per year.
60 terabytes. I'll never see that much cloud storage again. I'm relieved - and a little sad.
This story began many chapters ago. It culminated with some serious self and infrastructure examination, hard conversations, and a few tough decisions.
It's a story of online data hoarding in the guise of best practices, where too much became way too much, and the seemingly simple task of maintaining backups became an on-call emergency response second job.
I changed all that this week.
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