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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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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 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...

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