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In this billing example, the cost would decrease from 67K per quarter.

Note:  You can also refer to Amazon S3 Cost to know more information.

However, this optimization is offered as a topic level optional configuration rather than the default behavior based on followed scenarios:
(1)  Some users/topics rely on remote storage for real-time analytics and need the latest data to be available as soon as possible  (In fact, it only tries to stay as up-to-date as possible,
      but it still can’t include the latest data because the active segment hasn’t been uploaded yet.).
(2)  Some topics may set a very high ratio for remote-to-local retention time. The cost savings amount will be small, so it is mainly to avoid waste. Users may think it is not worth enabling the feature for the topics
(3)  Kafka admin want to reduce the expansion times for local disk when remote storage down for some time. after all. The already uploaded segments are eligible for deletion from broker when not enable the feature for topic.
      You can check the follow picture to understand the logic: 
      if the remote storage outage for short time:  no matter if  you enable the feature. it don't have difference. 
      if the remote storage outage for a medium-term time:  you will need one extra expansion:  the max size is the your saving cost's part.
      if the remote storage outage for a long time:  no matter if  you enable the feature. you should keep do expansion.
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