Farah Bianchi

EBS offers lower latency; EFS trades speed for shared multi-instance access.

EBS gp3 decouples IOPS from capacity; GCP's Persistent Disk ties them together.

NVMe caches deliver 10x faster IOPS and lower latency than SATA for S3 workloads that need it.

Retrieval fees and minimum durations, not storage rates, decide your cold archive bill.

Traditional archiving thresholds don't match AI's dormancy cycles and retrieval needs.

Residency and sovereignty are not the same—and that distinction can save you in court.

Four approaches eliminate egress costs and data copies for multi-cloud workloads.

Most vendors claim S3-compatibility but implement wildly different feature sets.

Pick the right storage type for your workload, or watch performance and costs both suffer.

Ransomware and AI compliance demands are making air-gapped backups essential infrastructure.

Mounting object storage as a filesystem bridges incompatible models with real performance tradeoffs.

Agents pull context on demand rather than front-loading it.

AI's random access patterns clash with storage systems built for sequential reads.

S3 dominates AI training because its design matches how data spreads across distributed compute.

Parallel S3 access patterns solve GPU starvation better than traditional file storage.