yapret

> We can only fly every other day because it takes a day between flights to offload the data via fiber onto storage servers

What’s preventing you from buying a second set of SSD drives and swapping them into planes end of day?

The planes would then be able to fly every day while the previous day’s data is being offloaded on the ground, condensing the two weeks into one. Swaps could even be quite easy if you replace full enclosures rather than each drive individually.

I'm probably missing something, though!

Regarding your scale/customer density problem, you may want to check AWS’s EC2 pricing, which bills by the second rather than the hour.