Just provision more storage is usually the answer on the cloud as well unless someone has a concrete idea as to how to use less storage. Although the math is a

Just provision more storage is usually the answer on the cloud as well unless someone has a concrete idea as to how to use less storage. Although the math is a bit trickier since it's a monthly price rather than a one time cost (although if your database is growing at a constant rate then that one time provisioning is really just a monthly price on-prem as well).