How a Growing Platform Used IAM Policies to Stop Storage Sprawl and Scale Without Breaking Ops

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How a mid-stage platform watched storage costs and latency explode Two years after product-market fit, a platform serving enterprise customers faced a creeping problem that almost every engineering lead knows: storage kept growing faster