Why $0 holds
Free reads as a cost structure: owned fiber and owned metal, no transit bill to pass through.
Free reads are a cost structure, not a promotion.
Hyperscalers buy transit and resell it — the egress line item exists because their reads have a unit cost. Ramo owns the fiber end to end, so a read costs approximately nothing at the margin. There is no transit bill to pass through, which is why $0 is a list price, not a loss leader waiting for a repricing.
The same zero-egress economics that worked at the edge for the web's small objects — extended to the petabyte tier.
Metal, not meters
Storage runs on bare metal Ramo owns and operates — no hypervisor, no shared fabric, no egress meter. That is also why the throughput number is a floor that gets signed, not a best-effort ceiling: line rate is the design target; 100 Gbps is what the contract says. Durability is eleven nines, erasure-coded, across 2 US regions.
Free reads change where data settles: store the corpus once, rent GPUs wherever they are cheapest this quarter. The dataset stops being the thing that locks you in.
Store the corpus once. Rent GPUs anywhere.