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Notes from the storage ops trenches
Practical guides for S3 management — lifecycle, cost, security, and product updates. No filler.
FEATURED · RCLONE GUI
rclone, honestly: what it does better than us
September 2026 · 8 min read
rclone is free and excellent. Here is exactly what it does better than a hosted storage console, where it costs you time instead of money, and how to decide which you need.
Read the post →September 2026 · 7 min readcloud storage wasteCloud waste went up this year, and storage is where it hidesFlexera's 2026 survey found wasted cloud spend rose to 29%, the first increase in five years. Here is why storage is where most of it sits, and the five checks that find it.September 2026 · 9 min readmigrate s3 to r2Moving off S3 to Cloudflare R2: the honest guideA step-by-step S3 to R2 migration guide, including the gotchas nobody warns you about: multipart ETags, storage classes, the exit fee, and how to verify the move actually worked.September 2026 · 8 min reads3 egress feesWhat S3 egress actually costs, with the arithmeticAWS charges to take your own data out of S3. Here is the actual arithmetic on 1 TB, 10 TB and 50 TB, what the no-egress providers really cost, and when moving is worth it.