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Retention cost is dominated by the hot searchable tier, which is both uncompressed and priced at object-store rates many times higher than archival storage. Moving older data to a compressed cold tier at roughly eight-to-one compression and a twelfth of the price typically cuts total cost by an order of magnitude while keeping the compliance window intact.
Tiered retention cost
hot GB = daily x hot days; cold GB = daily x cold days / compression; monthly = hot GB x hot price + cold GB x cold price
Long enough to cover incident investigation, which is usually 7 to 14 days. Older data is queried rarely and can tolerate a restore delay.
For archival classes yes. Restoring a large volume from deep archive can cost more than a month of storage, so model retrieval frequency before choosing the cheapest tier.