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AWS FinOps Simplified

You're reading from   AWS FinOps Simplified Eliminate cloud waste through practical FinOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803247236
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Chung Peter Chung
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: FinOps Foundation 2. Part 1: Managing Your AWS Inventory FREE CHAPTER
3. Chapter 2: Establishing the Right Account Structure 4. Chapter 3: Managing Inventory 5. Chapter 4: Planning and Metrics Tracking 6. Chapter 5: Governing Cost and Usage 7. Part 2: Optimizing Your AWS Resources
8. Chapter 6: Optimizing Compute 9. Chapter 7: Optimizing Storage 10. Chapter 8: Optimizing Networking 11. Chapter 9: Optimizing Cloud-Native Environments 12. Part 3: Operationalizing FinOps
13. Chapter 10: Data-Driven FinOps 14. Chapter 11: Driving FinOps Autonomously 15. Chapter 12: Management Functions 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Optimizing block and file storage

File storage is similar to the way that a user would organize files on their personal computer. With file storage, you organize and represent data as a hierarchy of files in folders. Separately, block storage groups data into organized but evenly sized volumes. You can think of this in the same way as copy-pasting a bunch of files, images, videos, and other media files into an external hard drive. That hard drive functions as a block store. We’ll explore how to optimize block and file storage next.

Optimizing EBS

For many EC2 instances that you spin up, you can associate a block storage volume to that instance. You can imagine these storage volumes as attached hard drives on your local computer; you can purchase a 1 TB hard drive, attach it to your computer, and expand your storage space. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes are similar in this regard but have additional bonuses, such as the ability to elastically change the volume...

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