Nowadays, we’re increasingly accustomed to storing our images, videos, and documents in the cloud. Not having to rely on personal storage space sounds convenient, but it comes at a cost: money. The more data we want to store in the cloud, the more we have to pay. Countless companies are choosing the cloud over their own servers and disks because it’s much easier than hosting a server, keeping it secure from malicious attacks, and managing storage and connectivity for every employee.
One popular choice for companies is SharePoint, which offers a user-friendly interface, speed, and easy integration with Microsoft Teams. However, these benefits come at a price, and the more data you need to store, the more you’ll end up paying.

At my workplace, we noticed our available cloud storage shrinking day by day, so we began investigating the cause.
When I was assigned the task of identifying and solving the problem, I came across Versioning in SharePoint.
SharePoint has a feature called Versioning, which saves multiple copies of a document every time it’s edited. If you upload a document today and edit it tomorrow, SharePoint will save both versions, doubling the storage used. While it would be fine if you could limit the number of versions to 2 or 3, the default minimum is 100 versions!