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How Airtable Saved Millions by Cutting Archive Storage Costs by 100x

Airtable moved petabytes of cold log data out of MySQL and built a cheaper archive layer on S3 and Parquet without sacrificing fast queries.

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Apr 23, 2026
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Today we will look at how Airtable cut archive storage costs by 100x and saved millions.

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