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Saying that "that's only 20 gigabytes worth of certs" is roughly equivalent to saying "this database is only 1.8TB - that's miniscule, 2TB drives are only $70!". There's a whole lot more moving parts, especially at scale (developing a system to manage 5M certs? Pretty sure that's a whiteboard interview question somewhere).

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Please read this conversation with the context in mind rather than replying to the one statement. When you're referring to costs as a category, as that statement was, the "moving parts" aren't factored into storage costs.

I have, and I believe that you're being extraordinarily reductionist about the true costs involved in developing and operating services like certificate management at scale.

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