First of all, if you have a dev DB that’s 12 TB, I can practically guarantee that it is tremendously unoptimized.

But also, that’s extremely easily handled with physical servers - there are NVMe drives that are 10x as large.

that's what I always brag to my devs, why is our DB 1TB, and only 20 users are working in our app. They are collecting all garbage and saving it to DB. Poor development skills I would say. Our old app did the same thing, and after 15 years it was barely 100GB with tens of users. devs today are SELECT *. If it does not work, they say we need more resources. Thats why I hate cloud.

Eh, please find me a 120 TB NVMe.