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Chris Engelbert
Jan 17th, 2025 | 4 min read
We Built a Tool to Help You Understand Your Real EBS Usage!
There is one question in life that is really hard to answer: “What is your actual AWS EBS volume usage?” When talking to customers and users, this question is frequently left open with the note that…
Chris Engelbert
Dec 10th, 2024 | 7 min read
AWS Cost Management: Strategies for Right-Sizing Storage in Dynamic Environments
( Pixabay ) For companies that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for storage, having firm control over costs is key. Mismanaging storage can directly lead to soaring expenses and unexpected losses in a…
Rob Pankow
Oct 3rd, 2024 | 4 min read
Local NVMe Storage on AWS - Pros and Cons
The debate over the optimal storage solution has been ongoing. Local instance storage on AWS (i.e. ephemeral NVMe disk attached to EC2 instance) brings remarkable cost-performance ratios. It offers…
Michael Schmidt
Sep 19th, 2024 | 10 min read
Simplyblock for AWS: Environments with many gp2 or gp3 Volumes
When operating your stateful workloads in Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, data is commonly stored on Amazon’s EBS volumes. AWS supports a set of different volume types which offer different performance…
Rob Pankow
Aug 11th, 2024 | 11 min read
AWS Storage Optimization: Best Practices for Cost and Performance
Managing storage costs in AWS environments has become increasingly critical as organizations scale their cloud infrastructure. With storage often representing 20-30% of cloud spending, AWS storage…
Rob Pankow
Aug 6th, 2024 | 9 min read
What is AWS Marketplace?
Overview of AWS Marketplace AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that allows customers to find, buy, and deploy software and services that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) . It's designed to simplify…
Rob Pankow
Jun 28th, 2024 | 10 min read
How to reduce AWS cloud costs with AWS marketplace products?
The AWS Marketplace is a comprehensive catalog consisting of thousands of offerings that help organizations find, purchase, deploy and manage third-party software and services to optimize their cloud…
Rob Pankow
Jun 13th, 2024 | 7 min read
How to benefit from AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP)
The AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) is a discount initiative designed for organizations spending at least $1M per year on AWS cloud services and committed to extensive and long-term usage of…
Rob Pankow
Apr 17th, 2024 | 7 min read
Block Storage Volume Pooling for the Cloud-Age
If you have services running in the AWS, you’ll eventually need block storage to store data. Services like Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) provide block storage to be used in your EC2 instances,…
Steven Sklar (Guest Author, QuestDB)
Mar 29th, 2024 | 14 min read
How the CSI (Container Storage Interface) Works
If you work with persistent storage in Kubernetes, maybe you've seen articles about how to migrate from in-tree to CSI volumes, but aren't sure what all the fuss is about? Or perhaps you're trying to…
Chris Engelbert
Mar 27th, 2024 | 8 min read
Kubernetes CSI: Container Attached Storage
Containerized services must be stateless, a doctrine that was widely used in the early days of containerization, which came hand-in-hand with microservices. While it makes elasticity easy, these…
Chris Engelbert
Feb 28th, 2024 | 9 min read
AWS EBS Pricing: A Comprehensive Guide
In the vast landscape of cloud computing, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) stands out as a crucial component for storage in AWS’ Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), as well as other AWS…