Optimizing object storage
We’ve discussed in great detail the on-demand provisioning of compute resources in the previous chapter. With all that compute capacity, whether you’re using EC2 instances or Lambda functions, you need somewhere to store your data. Fortunately, storage is just as easily and readily available on AWS as compute.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is widely used as a storage medium on AWS. But reducing waste on storage costs with Amazon S3 is going to depend on the application, because an application used for backup and archive is going to have different needs from an e-commerce site or a streaming video service.
Reducing Amazon S3 costs boils down to three concerns:
- Where you store the data in S3
- How often you retrieve that data
- Where you move that data to
These concerns will differ based on the workload. For example, a backup workload will be less likely to have requests and retrieval requests than a video...
