I think the only interesting & substantive piece of info here is that AWS will sometimes waive DTO fees. (For once I'm actually thankful for GDPR!)
Their claimed savings are suspect, borderline clickbait, and even if they are correct the preconditions to realize those savings don't apply to the vast majority of other companies.
They already had datacenters and claim that there will be no increased opex for things like power, network (which must be substantial if they pay 1.5MM for 18PB) and employees, only needed a trivial amount of space they already had, and sounds like they're sacrificing redundancy too.
Their claimed savings are suspect, borderline clickbait, and even if they are correct the preconditions to realize those savings don't apply to the vast majority of other companies.
They already had datacenters and claim that there will be no increased opex for things like power, network (which must be substantial if they pay 1.5MM for 18PB) and employees, only needed a trivial amount of space they already had, and sounds like they're sacrificing redundancy too.