Right like looking back, they're setting up a production, user facing service. If I want to just store a 5tb blob somewhere, I think that fits in freebie CNS, so I don't even have to provision resources, I just cat the file or whatever (granted, 5tb was a bit bigger 10 years ago).

Having a rule that "your user-facing service needs to be replicated" is a good rule. Replication being difficult was the problem.