In this AWS-focused episode, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake talks with James Campbell about one of the most common (and most expensive) sources of cloud surprises: storage choices. James breaks down how AWS offers an overwhelming number of options across EBS, S3, and Glacier tiers, and why “flexibility” often translates into misconfiguration, avoidable spend, and hidden performance bottlenecks.They also dig into a frequent pain point: backups and snapshots. JD and James explain what people misunderstand about AWS snapshots, why “snapshot completion time” can be deceptive, and how resilience assumptions can fall apart if you don’t plan for availability zone / region boundaries and the time it takes to copy data across them. If your AWS bill feels unpredictable—or your retention and DR plan is more hope than strategy—this episode reframes storage as a first-class architecture decision, not an afterthought.
