Lower AI Storage Costs by 75% | CoreWeave

This post introduces automated usage-based billing levels (Hot, Warm, Cold) for CoreWeave AI Object Storage, which automatically distinguish and lower the price for inactive data without slowing reads or changing pipelines. It explains that data moves from Hot to Warm after seven days of inactivity and from Warm to Cold after more than 30 days, all without manual management or rehydration delay. The post also includes a competitive cost analysis comparing CoreWeave AI Object Storage to AWS S3 Standard, AWS S3 Express, GCP GCS Standard, and Azure Blob, Hot LRS, highlighting CoreWeave's lack of egress, per-request, retrieval, or tiering fees and consistent performance.