How BlobRouter reasons about storage — decide(), callouts, segment economics, and when not to move data.
BlobRouter v0.1 · Last updated: September 2026 · Architecture version: 2.0
BlobRouter’s Storage Decision Engine turns observed (and carefully labeled) workload signals into a structured decision report — not a black-box “AI said migrate.”The engine’s job is to help you decide what to do with storage estates: move cold data, keep hot data where it is, or explicitly do nothing until a monitor trigger fires. Paid plans buy continuous analysis of that estate; they do not buy migrations. See Plans & billing.
Starts from observed S3 inventory via a read-only IAM role. Modeled assumptions (for example access patterns not fully measured yet) are labeled — they are not sold as measured fact.
Marketing / product demo
Uses a fully populated representative workload profile so you can click through a complete report. It is not a real customer’s data.
Do not treat demo dollars as a production guarantee for your account.
Free AWS audit (STS, read-only) → Legacy waste + ranked recommendations → Decision report (when available on the scan) → Optional: approve a migration → Optional: smart router for new uploads → Paid: continuous re-evaluation of the estate
Upload routing (where a new object goes) is a separate concept — see Routing logic. The decision engine is about the estate you already have.
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