As organizations expand their cloud operations, managing object storage costs and performance becomes increasingly challenging, especially with the vast amounts of data generated by AI and data-intensive workloads. Datadog Storage Monitoring offers a solution by providing visibility into cloud storage usage, helping to optimize costs, enhance performance, and improve operational efficiency across platforms like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. With new prefix-level metrics for Amazon S3, users can better manage lifecycle and retention policies, identify cost-saving opportunities by moving infrequently accessed data to lower-cost tiers, and resolve performance bottlenecks caused by high-traffic prefixes. This centralized approach allows organizations to enforce storage policies more effectively and make informed decisions based on detailed storage usage patterns. Storage Monitoring is currently in preview, with additional features for Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage on the horizon, and offers a free trial for new users.