Cloud Econ 101

This eBook explores the growing financial and operational pressures higher education institutions face when managing cloud storage, including hidden fees, cybersecurity risks, and increasing data demands. It highlights how traditional cloud providers often burden schools with unpredictable costs for data access, retrieval, and API requests, making budgeting and scalability difficult. The report positions Wasabi’s flat-rate cloud storage model as a more cost-effective and transparent solution for supporting research, backups, surveillance, and digital learning environments in higher education.