As if this wasn't enough of a headache, GDPR regulation requires more safeguards before you can put your prod-data in a secured staging environment. Then there

As if this wasn't enough of a headache, GDPR regulation requires more safeguards before you can put your prod-data in a secured staging environment. Then there is the database size, which can make it hard and expensive to keep preprod up to date. And should you want to measure performance, then no one else can use preprod while that is going on.