Honest, sourced cost breakdowns for moving the expensive parts of your stack off AWS — with the real numbers, including the cost of running it yourself, and the cases where you should stay.
AWS charges ~$0.09/GB to download your own data — unchanged since 2018. What "egress" means, what 50 TB looks like for a real business, costs at every scale, and four ways to cut it.
MinIO's open-source server was wound down. SeaweedFS, Garage, Cloudflare R2 and Backblaze B2 compared — with real monthly costs, egress included.
Log ingest at $0.50/GB and $0.30 per custom metric adds up fast. The Prometheus / Grafana / Loki / VictoriaMetrics stack that replaces it — and where to keep some CloudWatch.
The honest answer to the top objection: where you're stronger off-cloud (free DDoS scrubbing), where you're weaker, and how to reach 99.9% without a hyperscaler.