>For example we have used 90% of our SANs storage, our IO is suffering and now were looking at purchasing two $10k SANs to upgrade. In the meantime, we have pro

>For example we have used 90% of our SANs storage, our IO is suffering and now were looking at purchasing two $10k SANs to upgrade. In the meantime, we have probably spent over 10k worth of development time to compress, clean up, and remove any data we don't need. I suspect you haven't priced out AWS storage (and the bandwidth to actually access the data with frequency). If the cost of a SAN was hurting your company and you had to look to reduce data usage, AWS will absolutely wipe you out.