You’re Wasting 70% of your Cloud Storage (here’s how to fix it)

The Hidden AI Cost: Why Block Storage is Ruining Your Cloud Bill

Are you buying too much cloud storage for your AI projects? When teams get new GPUs, they often buy double or triple the storage they need just to be safe.

In this FinOps Weekly interview, live from San Diego. Ryan from Datafy reveals why block storage is a silent budget killer. While AWS offers discount plans for compute resources, attached storage has no savings plans. This makes it a top cost on your cloud bill. Ryan shares his insights from working 5 years at AWS. He explains exactly why shrinking a cloud volume is so hard and how to cut the waste with zero downtime.

Stop paying for empty space. Watch to learn the simple command you can run this Monday to see if your file system is sitting empty and wasting your money.

0:00 – The silent block storage cost explosion.
1:02 – Why teams double or triple their AI storage space.
2:13 – The big problem with AWS EC2 and attached storage.
3:50 – How storage waste multiplies across your golden images.
5:35 – Why it is so hard to shrink cloud volumes without losing data.
8:23 – How the AI boom and LLMs force storage costs to grow.
11:21 – The exact Monday morning check you must run to find waste.
12:08 – Ryan’s inside view from 5 years working at AWS.

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