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Why Cloud Bills Now Include Defragmentation Write Fees
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a fresh line item that's appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: defragmentation write fees. When you run a database that needs periodic index rebuilding or storage compaction, the cloud provider now meters those writes as if they were normal transactions — even though they're housekeeping you'd never see on-premises. The hosts trace how this fee emerged from the shift to disaggregated storage and the rising cost of internal metadata operations. They talk through a concrete example: a mid-sized e-commerce…
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