I do believe that making OSM operations transparent is crucial. I don’t consider it a waste of time, and I apologize if you do. I’ve expressed my concerns about certain issues that, in my opinion, are very critical.
I called having 86TB in Fastly logs insane, as I believe it’s an accurate description. Fortunately, this situation no longer persists. However, I urge you to consider the surrounding context. I mentioned this as an example of what might be happening with S3, as this information seems to be not publicized.
This is the only occasion where I’ve characterized something as insane. And in my view, it’s difficult to dispute this assessment. To put it in perspective, 86TB is roughly equivalent to ~666 times the size of a 129GB OSM Planet file. That’s an immense amount of storage space devoted to log files from a CDN alone, which, at the end of the day, are just fancy text files.
Please don’t hesitate to present counterarguments if you disagree with the characterization of this situation as insane. I am open to engaging in a discussion about it. And please, don’t focus on out-of-context statements alone, please consider the complete picture.
Again, I don’t want to focus too much on the matter of 86TB log files. I brought it up once more primarily because you disagreed with my characterization of it. If you have any objections, I kindly ask you to share your reasoning.