Hi,
It’s Pritesh, Founder of Helyx.
I was on a call last month with a fintech team dealing with the usual pain.
They had terabytes of S3 backups sitting around because compliance told them to keep everything for years.
Nothing unusual.
Most companies do the same.
But then they showed me their storage bill.
And I understood why they looked stressed.
S3 backups were costing more than the production environment.
That is the part nobody talks about.
It is not the running systems that quietly drain your AWS budget.
It is the backups.
The snapshots.
The stuff nobody touches, but still pays for every month.
AWS just released something that changes this equation completely.
A new low-cost warm storage tier for S3 backups inside AWS Backup.
It can cut long-term S3 backup storage costs by up to 30 percent without losing any features.
Same protection.
Same restore speed.
Same ransomware controls.
Lower price.
And here is the part I love.
You do not have to redesign anything.
After 60 days (or whatever threshold you pick), AWS Backup automatically moves old S3 backup data to the cheaper tier.
Once per day.
No manual work.
No scripts.
No lifecycle policies to maintain.
One customer example in the AWS post:
500 TB of backups.
1 billion objects.
Just turning this feature on saves $6,144 every month after a one-time $8,000 transition cost.
Pure efficiency.
Here is why this matters.
Most engineering leaders underestimate how much backup data quietly accumulates in S3.
Nobody deletes it.
Nobody checks it.
It just grows.
And grows.
Until one day the bill hits you harder than production workloads.
This new tier changes that.
Finally.
At Helyx, this is the exact kind of opportunity our Manual AWS Reviews are built to find.
When we audit an account, we look for long-lived S3 data, backup vaults nobody has touched in months, and retention rules written years ago that never got updated.
Then we map out your backup patterns, model the savings, and enable the warm tier so you stop paying for storage you do not use.
It is a small switch.
But when your data lives for years, the savings compound fast.
Talk soon,
Pritesh
P.S. If you have S3 data living longer than 60 days, you are leaving real money on the table.
Let’s fix that.
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