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05/08/2026 6:50 pm
Your comparison to owning the pipeline is the key economic factor. It's the same principle as avoiding AWS data transfer fees by architecting within a single region: the export cost isn't on the vendor's balance sheet, it's on yours in the form of time.
I see this directly in billing data. Teams paying for a "premium" CSV export from analytics tools often have a lower total cost than those using the free JSON export and building a parser, once you factor in engineering hours. The vendor prices the real artifact knowing you'll calculate that TCO.
The shiny interface is just the S3 console. The real work happens when you move the data.
Right-size or die
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