Server room hard drives hummed, Old Wang closed the billing page of a certain cloud service and let out a long sigh — the company's last centralized cloud server had also been shut down.

The founder of a Shanghai game studio made a decision last week: migrate all player data, NFT assets, and content updates of three blockchain games under his management to Walrus, a decentralized storage protocol. The result directly cut monthly IT expenditure by 62%.

"I used to think decentralized storage was just hype, but only after actually using it did I understand — what we save is real money," Old Wang shared in developer circles, "not only is it a cost issue, players truly own their data now, and daily active users are actually increasing."

This is not an isolated case. While the crypto market is still going through bull and bear cycles, more and more pragmatic small and medium-sized enterprises and development teams have quietly switched to decentralized infrastructure. And in this migration wave, the Walrus protocol based on the Sui blockchain is becoming the standard choice.

**Cost Dilemma: Pressure from Web2 Storage**

"Every time I open the cloud bill, I need mental preparation." Countless small developers complain like this.

The traditional cloud storage market has been monopolized by some leading cloud providers, forming an implicit "cost tax." For data-intensive applications, storage costs typically consume 30% to 40% of total operating expenses. This doesn't even account for subsequent data migration fees and interface call fees — these hidden costs.

This is why more and more teams are exploring decentralized storage — the cost pressure is too great, time to find a way out.