I’m not sure that’s entirely true. Aws at least is ok with exotic technologies if they’re an order of magnitude or more beneficial. The scales discussed are not

I’m not sure that’s entirely true. Aws at least is ok with exotic technologies if they’re an order of magnitude or more beneficial. The scales discussed are not on magnetic roadmaps and are compelling enough. Glacier is today a fairly custom hardware kit built around tape infrastructure and used to be based on spinning disks. They’ve redeveloped it at least once and would again