Your data, always protected.
What’s included:

• Object/block/file storage (S3/Blob/GCS, EBS/EFS/File) for different I/O profiles.

• Lifecycle policies (tiering, archive, auto-delete), versioning, M-F deletes.

• Encryption at rest/in transit (KMS), key management, signed URLs/presigns.

• Access control: IAM/ACL, namespace isolation, temporary tokens.

• Cross-region replication, data classification, and cost metrics ($/GB/month).

Deliverables:

• “Data map” (what, where, in which storage class and why).

• Retention/compliance policies, budget alerts.

• Access guide, on-call playbooks for data incidents.

Process: inventory → design storage classes → migration → optimization.

Success metrics: RPO/RTO for key datasets, % storage cost savings, avg recovery time.

Options: S3 Object-Lock, immutability, Data Catalog/Glue, cleanup of unused buckets.