How Orbon Ends the ‘Cloud Tax’ and Returns Time and Capital to Innovators

The rise of Cloud technology saw many businesses adopt it for digital transformation, and they have since taken on a cloud-first approach because of its efficiency and flexibility. The major providers, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, promised unlimited flexibility and seamlessness at the time, but lately, the Cloud has become far too complicated and expensive for regular businesses. While this current condition may work for large enterprises with substantial resources and intensive operations, the situation is far different for small and medium-sized enterprises. This creates an issue known as the "Cloud Tax."

What is the "Cloud Tax"?

‘Cloud Tax’ is often the phrase used in the Cloud space to describe the composite cost of operational complexity, vendor lock-in, and punitive fees that actively drain time and financial capital away from innovation. This “tax” mainly manifests in two ways:

1. Unpredictable cost: According to a recent Dimensional Research Report, nearly 95% of IT leaders are surprised by unexpected cloud storage charges, most often egress fees from data retrieval. These egress fees not only disrupt predictable budgeting; they also create a “walled garden” effect that makes it prohibitively expensive to adopt access or share data freely. Data may be secure, but the high egress fees not only lock organizations’ data in but also effectively turn their cloud operations into an unpredictable, restrictive cost center.
2. The Time Drain: Engineers are also forced to spend valuable time on non-value-added maintenance. Instead of building new features for their product, finding and leveraging new data points for the business, they are stuck manually optimizing storage tiers, managing complex replication policies, or trying to navigate convoluted cloud portal dashboards to minimize network bandwidth costs. Estimates indicate that up to 23% of engineering time is spent on non-value-added work, slowing innovation and causing burnout.

The nuance here is critical. The original cloud is not "broken", as that would be an overly emotional claim. Some aspects of its operations and costs are simply obsolete in its economic model for certain users. The solution is not a radical replacement, but a strategic, complementary utility layer built to bypass these pain points entirely.

The Solution of Shifting from Cost Center to Innovation Fund

Orbon Cloud is built to solve this Cloud Tax in the industry. Time and money spent on unnecessary operational tasks and punitive fees are valuable capital that could (and should) be flowing back into the hands of innovators. Our mission is to transform IT from a Cost Center to an Innovation Fund.

With this, your DevOps team can focus entirely on building and scaling, instead of spending resources on manual optimization of your Cloud storage architecture. This shift begins with the fundamental realization that the modern Cloud environment needs a solution designed for the reality of today's tech landscape. A good example of this point is how tools like WordPress and Magento made the development and deployment of websites more efficient, without the need for long coding. Our utility does a similar thing for cloud ops, helping clients to use the Cloud efficiently for their day-to-day, without spending much time and money on the operational overhead of optimizing cloud storage.

This is the principle of Orbon Cloud.

From Egress-Fee to Egress-Free

The single most effective way to eliminate the Cloud Tax is to target the largest source of the surprise bill: the egress fee. This is the mandate of our flagship product, Orbon Storage.

Orbon Storage works alongside your current Cloud setup rather than replacing it. It helps save costs and gives you freedom with your data. It's an S3-compatible storage solution designed for fast access, making it ideal for data backup and disaster recovery.

If you are reading this as your company’s CTO or the DevOps manager, your biggest headache currently would be unexpected egress costs from major providers. And our guess is, it’s already causing friction between you and the CFO (or Finance team). How do we know this? 

Well, that’s because we have been there and have heard the complaints of many in our field, so much so that we created the solution. And the solution lies in the one simple action that can stop these cost overheads.

This is not a bluff, it’s our core belief. We believe punitive fees are excessive and limiting to the clients. And that’s why you can be sure that with Orbon Storage, your restores will always be free of egress charges, and you get one price for only what you use with our service.

We built the utility, delivered the outcome, and we’re giving you your time and money back.

The only remaining question is: When will you end your Cloud Tax?

Join our Waitlist to stand a chance to be among the select 100 clients we will be giving access to Alpha for a special Proof-of-Concept use case to drive your existing costs down by 60%. If this sounds interesting to you, then join the waitlist here already.