File storage optimization
In this section, we will cover different strategies and ideas on how to achieve cost optimization when using file storage services. To begin with, let’s analyze how to rightsize our file shares not only in capacity but also in performance, in order to cut unneeded costs.
File storage rightsizing and data temperature
Following the same concepts as disk storage rightsizing, we need to make sure that our file storage services are correctly sized in regard to provisioned capacity.
The first step in this process is to analyze how much of our provisioned file storage we actually use. It is also important to have some visibility in how many transactions we are being billed for per bucket or storage account.
Having this information at hand allows us to project how much it would cost to have the same information in another storage class (for example, one that is better suited for highly transactional systems). It even helps us to decide to move the...
