Your storage bill shouldn't
outgrow your revenue.
$4.99/TB flat. No egress, no per-request fees, no surprise invoice. The line item you can defend in the next runway conversation.
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The cloud bill scales with success.
Hyperscaler pricing was written assuming the buyer is a hyperscaler customer. For a five-person startup, that means a bill that compounds with growth in three directions at once — storage tier, egress, and per-request fees — none of which line up with your revenue curve.
The pricing looked reasonable.
10 GB of user uploads, a few hundred reads a day. AWS sends a $2 bill. Nothing to worry about. The terms-of-service paragraph nobody read says egress is $0.09 per GB and PUTs are $5 per million.
The bill grew faster than ARR.
Product market fit. Usage 100×. The same line items now read $687 a month and climb every Monday morning. The default reaction is to spend an engineering sprint on caching, sampling, and CDNs to bend the curve down.
You started running the bill, not building.
A real Series A. Storage is now a board-level conversation. The CFO wants a forecast. The forecast has too many AWS knobs in it. Switching costs were quoted as an engineering quarter, so the line keeps growing.
Same workload. Different curves.
AWS S3 Standard at advertised rates, with 50% of stored data read each month. Fil One flat-rate against the same scenarios.
| Workload | AWS storage | AWS egress | AWS total / mo | Fil One / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 TB | $24 | $45 | $69 | $5 |
| 10 TB | $236 | $451 | $687 | $50 |
| 50 TB | $1,178 | $2,250 | $3,428 | $250 |
| 100 TB | $2,335 | $4,418 | $6,753 | $499 |
AWS S3 Standard storage tiers and egress rates from public US Q2 2026 rate card. Egress estimated at 50% of stored volume read per month — conservative for an active product. Per-request fees not included.
Storage that doesn't need a FinOps team.
One line, one rate. The thing you ship instead of the thing you optimise.
Predictable invoice
Multiply $4.99 by the TB you keep. That number is the bill. Show it to the board without a caveat slide.
Scales linearly, not exponentially
When usage doubles, the bill doubles. No tier transitions, no egress cliffs, no surprise PUT charges from a viral launch day.
S3-compatible from day one
boto3, AWS CLI, every SDK. You write the same code you would have on AWS. If you outgrow us, you can leave the same way.
No egress on customer reads
Customer downloads, embedded media, dashboard fetches, mobile app pulls — every read is included.
One rate. $4.99/TB/month.
That is the bill. Multiplied by TB. The number you put in the model.
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