&gt; reduce their potential storage liability<p>Its to reduce their maximum bandwidth capacity required. I don&#x27;t see it as a problem, considering their price points. They&#x27;re selling you storage, not &quot;slam 1TB of your data into our storage system in a day&quot;. If you&#x27;re looking for that, ship a hard drive to Iron Mountain.<p>EDIT: Even AWS limits how fast you can upload to S3, <i>and built an appliance for you to rent and ship back and forth if you need to move data faster</i>. That station wagon full of tape is still alive and well.