Cloud retention bloat is a silent drain on cloud budgets. Whether it’s indefinite S3 snapshots, untagged backups, or policies that haven’t been touched in years, most teams are paying for far more storage than they actually need.

In this 20-minute Cloud Cuts episode, Eon’s Gonen Stein joins AWS’s Anthony Fiore to dig into the real reasons cloud retention gets out of hand and what to do about it. They’ll share hard-earned lessons from customers caught off guard by “just in case” backups, show how posture-aware automation bridges the gap left by AWS-native tools, and break down three practical steps to right-size retention across cloud environments.

Whether you're a FinOps lead, platform engineer, or cloud architect, you’ll leave with a sharper understanding of where retention costs hide, how to fix posture drift, and how small teams can act fast, without touching production systems.