May. 20, 2026
Figure 2 —"23× Storage Cost Gap" The SEC proposes to shorten CAT retention from 5 years (originally it was 6) down to 3 to save money. Here is the cost argument, at AWS April 2026 actual publicly available pricing: - S3 Standard: $276,000 / PB-year - S3 Glacier Deep Archive: $11,880 / PB-year With compression and an expected federal discount: ~$990 / PB-year That is a 96% reduction... available today, no deletion required. The Commission chose deletion over architecture. It paid for cost savings with evidence. Every SEC enforcement lawyer who has ever needed a five-year-old order book will lose the ability to pull it. I oppose Deleting any Cat Data ever. #CAT #SEC #File4698 #CloudEconomics