Optimizing Storage
While compute focuses on the doing of things, storage focuses on the keeping of things. You need a place to store your data. Given the volume, velocity, and veracity of data, today’s technology landscape commonly refers to data as the new oil. Enterprises are looking at ways to leverage their data as assets, monetize them, and draw meaningful insights from them. Although directly monetizing data is outside the scope of this book, we can at least optimize our stored data to make it readily available if or when you ever venture down that path.
AWS provides several ways to store your data, and we’ll focus on optimizing object and block storage. We also look at optimizing databases. Some of the topics we covered in the last chapter will reappear here.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Optimizing object storage
- Optimizing databases
- Optimizing block and file storage
