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Amazon EBS Cost Optimization

How to Optimize Your Amazon EBS Costs with simplyblock

Are your AWS Amazon EBS costs spiraling out of control? Simplyblock helps organizations reduce their EBS storage costs by 50-80% through intelligent storage optimization—without changing their existing infrastructure.

Automated EBS Cost Optimization That Just Works

EBS volumes are typically over-provisioned by 50-70%. That means that the storage that your applications request is much higher than that of effectively utilized storage. The problem becomes larger with many different systems consuming Amazon EBS storage and requesting many small volumes. Simplyblock’s intelligent storage engine automatically optimizes your EBS storage costs in three key ways:

  1. Pay Only for What You Use: Through advanced thin provisioning, you only pay for storage you actually consume, not what you provision. For example, you can request 1TB but only pay for the 100GB you’re using.
  2. Intelligent Storage Pooling: simplyblock automatically consolidates and manages your EBS volumes in an efficient storage pool, eliminating wasted space and reducing costs.
  3. Automatic Cost-Saving Tiering: Cold data is automatically moved to cheaper S3 storage while keeping frequently accessed data readily available for maximum cost savings.

Simplyblock: Optimization of Your Amazon EBS Costs

Here’s a simple example of how simplyblock works:

  1. Your applications and database request a total of 1TB in block storage volumes but effectively use much less.
  2. Simplyblock initially provides only 100 GB of actual EBS storage.
  3. As you use more storage, simplyblock automatically grows the pool.
  4. You only pay for the storage you actually use—if you use 200GB, you only pay for 200 GB.
  5. Infrequently accessed data moves automatically to cheaper S3 storage.

Simple Connection

Getting started with simplyblock takes just minutes. Simply connect it to your AWS environment, and you’ll be ready to start saving. Your existing applications and infrastructure continue running exactly as they are today – no changes or disruptions are required.

Intelligent Automation

Once connected, simplyblock’s intelligent storage engine takes over all the complex work of optimizing your storage. It automatically consolidates and pools your AWS EBS volumes, provisioning additional storage only when you actually need it. The system intelligently moves cold data to S3 for additional cost savings while ensuring frequently accessed data remains quickly available. As your storage needs change, simplyblock automatically grows and shrinks capacity based on your real usage patterns.

Maximize Your Savings

With simplyblock, you’ll see immediate 50-80% cost reductions in your EBS storage spending through intelligent provisioning. Instead of paying for storage you’ve provisioned but aren’t using, you only pay for storage you actually consume. The system’s automatic tiering to S3 delivers even more savings by moving infrequently accessed data to lower-cost storage tiers. This happens with zero performance impact, however, simplyblock requires no changes to your applications.

The simplyblock storage engine works continuously in the background on optimization of your EBS storage costs while maintaining enterprise-grade performance, reliability, and security. Our intelligent system automatically handles all the complex storage management – from provisioning the right amount of storage at the right time to moving cold data to cheaper tiers. You get consistent performance and comprehensive security, including full encryption, with zero management overhead.

Start Saving on Amazon EBS Costs Today

With simplyblock storage optimization, you get:

  • 50-80% reduction in AWS Amazon EBS costs
  • Fully automated storage optimization
  • No changes to your existing applications
  • Enterprise-grade performance and security
  • Zero management overhead

Ready to reduce your AWS Amazon EBS costs? Contact us to learn how simplyblock can optimize your storage spending or immediately calculate your savings.