Summary
Storage is critical for any cloud-based workload. How and where you store your data will largely depend on the application and on the form of the data itself. AWS provides many storage technologies to support your workload, each with its own cost optimization strategies.
Use Amazon S3 for object storage. Once you have an idea of how you want to organize and partition your data in S3, choose the optimal storage class to lower your storage costs. You don’t have to get it right the first time. You can use lifecycle policies to transition objects from one storage class to another. You can get AWS’ help by using Intelligent-Tiering, which allows AWS to move objects to the optimal storage class for you. The same principles apply to file-based storage with Amazon EFS and UltraWarm storage for Amazon OpenSearch.
Use Amazon EBS for block storage of your Amazon EC2 instances, but also your on-premises servers if needed. Leverage the latest generation EBS volume types...
