From egress + storage cost standpoint absolutely which ends up being a big factor for these large scale data systems.

There’s a prior discussion on HN about that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38118577

And full disclosure but I’m author of both posts - just shifted my writing to be more focused on the company one.

By what metric? They're worth consideration and getting better: https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-events-gcs-migration-infreque...