Designing for Data Expiry: Why Not All Data Should Live Forever in Modern Cloud Architectures
Introduction: The End of “Store Everything Forever” For more than a decade, the cloud industry ran on a simple belief: storage is cheap, so keep everything. Logs, user sessions, telemetry, model inputs, and backups archive it all. You never know when it might be useful. But in 2026, that mindset is starting to look outdated. […]

