The catch is always in the fine print. The storage is cheap but the savings go away if you actually do anything with the data.

Storage is a foundational service in the cloud. There are huge advantages to having that storage sit adjacent to everything else. Such storage as a service somewhere else doesn’t make a lot of sense in many/most use cases. Now you’re having to pay to move data across comparatively slow networks links to where it’s actually needed. It’s a catchy headline but when putting this to the test in real world scenarios those numbers don’t pan out.