In most centralized cloud setups, every time data is moved out of storage (to build a dashboard, feed a model, run an analysis, or even just download), the company is paying egress fees to the provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
So while the data feels instant and magical inside a big org, it comes at a cost:
-Storage fees (to keep the data)
-Compute/query fees (to process it)
-Egress fees (to pull it out of the silo for use elsewhere)
That’s exactly the lock-in model Akave Cloud is pushing against, we eliminate egress fees and make data movement cost-efficient and verifiable.
still kinda in shock at the data leverage that you get at a big company
mentioned needing some metrics surfaced and 20 minutes later someone sends me a dashboard of thousands of data points
as a founder i was making decisions on google analytics and pure vibes.