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Headlines screamed 'S3 becomes a filesystem!' But dig deeper—Amazon S3 Files is a slick NFS overlay, not a reinvention. It bridges AI workloads to cheap object storage without the data shuffle.
Object storage seems straightforward until latency, egress, and minimum fees bite. Here's the gritty path from six providers to Cloudflare R2's zero-cost win.
Teams shove everything into Amazon S3 expecting a cozy file system. Reality? Crashing apps and mystery bills. AWS's fixes help—but don't erase the object storage trap.
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