Tag: ebs

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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…

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…

Best Open Source Tools for Amazon EBS

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides scalable, high-performance block storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances. It is an essential component for businesses relying on AWS for their…

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…

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…

AWS Migration - How to Migrate into the Cloud? Data Storage Perspective

Migrating to the cloud can be daunting, but it becomes a manageable and rewarding process with the right approach and understanding of the storage perspective. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a…

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…

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,…

How the CSI (Container Storage Interface) Works

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

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…

9 Best Open Source Tools for Apache Kafka

Rahil Parekh

Oct 23rd, 2023 | 6 min read

9 Best Open Source Tools for Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka has become the backbone of many modern data pipelines, offering distributed event streaming for building real-time data applications. As Kafka's adoption continues to grow, the ecosystem…

Rob Pankow

Apr 5th, 2023 | 2 min read

Simplyblock for AWS - Whitepaper

Simplyblock has recognized the limitations of conventional cloud storage services, specifically AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) , and has introduced a groundbreaking alternative. This whitepaper…