This... modern architectures for mid sized companies are a combination of hosted services. I still have bad dreams when I look back a on prem Swift stack object

This... modern architectures for mid sized companies are a combination of hosted services. I still have bad dreams when I look back a on prem Swift stack object store project took years to stand up & integrate all to have a much higher TCO and self manage a bunch of out of date s3 translation libraries. It was a system that had fixed scale, high licencing costs and did not bridge well into software that increasingly leveraging the AWS environment. Egress was least of our worries relative to integration complexity in services ecosystem. You have to be a very very large scale before self managed services make sense; as you suffer at integration layers for every developer that is even an inch off the well beaten path.