Storage economics: how old data subsidizes new data

surmenok · x · 2026-08-28

Grant Slatton discusses 'returns to age' in the storage business, noting that data traffic is proportional to age (older data is colder, newer data is hotter). Market entrants lack years of old cold data to subsidize new hot data, explaining the economics behind services like S3.

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