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Cloud Contract Now Mandates Write Amplification Factor Limits on SSDs
Episode 93 of The Cloud Business Podcast dives into a new clause appearing in hyperscale cloud contracts: write amplification factor (WAF) limits on provisioned SSD storage. Lucas explains how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now capping the ratio of physical writes to logical writes—and fining customers who exceed 3x WAF on gp3-equivalent volumes. Luna presses on why this matters: a single misconfigured logging job can triple a customer's storage cost overnight. The episode traces the origin to a 2024 Google paper showing that 40% of cloud SSD wear comes from noisy-neighbor workloads, then walks…
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