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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by Havoc on Saturday August 20, 2022 @07:18AM (#32531129)
>. They charge by the GB and are not exactly super cheap so if the customer wants to store a big fat file of easily compressible zeros then whatever, they got their money.

Maybe they charge at uncompressed rate but store it at compressed? Then they got even more money!

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