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Cloud Contracts Now Penalize Data Gravity Waste
Episode 77 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine a new clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts: data gravity waste penalties. As workloads balloon, hyperscalers like AWS and Azure are writing fees that charge based on how long data sits idle in a region without compute touching it. The hosts break down a real negotiation between a Fortune 500 retailer and Google Cloud where the penalty alone added $2.3 million to the annual bill. They explore how this shifts incentives toward 'data-streaming architectures' and regional sharding, and why CFOs should review…
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