Optimizing AWS S3 storage costs and usage

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Optimizing AWS Storage Costs and UsageMonitor and optimize S3 usage for cost

July 20, 2016

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Introduction

Today’s Topics

Mike McCullough Technical Account Manager

TODAY’S SPEAKER

1. Wait, how does Cloud Storage work again?

2. Understanding Object Storage types

3. Optimizing for cost efficiency

4. Q&A

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Our SolutionsHow It Works

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Cost Allocation Segment your cloud costs with detailed reports by tag, service, usage type, etc..

Usage Optimization Spot under-utilized resources w/ instance level usage metrics.

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A Story of Growth

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Cloud Storage BasicsWhat is AWS Simple Storage Service?

๏ Secure, durable, scalable, Cloud object storage

๏ S3 Standard, S3 Standard - IA, Glacier

๏ Misalignment in data location by storage term length can be very costly

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Cloud Object Storage Basics

AWS S3 Standard

๏ Know the Tier requests ๏ Tier 1: PUT, COPY, POST, LIST ๏ Tier 2: GET ๏ Tier 3: Glacier Archive and Restore

๏ Tag your buckets

๏ Implement data lifecycle management policies

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S3 Bucket Level ReportsCloudability Resource Analytics

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S3 Bucket Level ReportsCloudability Resource Analytics

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Stage I: Cost visibility for all (emails, alerts, dashboards)

Stage II: Allocating costs to departments (tags, linked accounts)

Stage III: Using only what you need (underutilized, unneeded)

Stage IV: Lowering Cost Per Hour (new families, Reserved Instances)

Stage V: Tying spending to the bottom line (unit cost)

The Five Stages of Cloud EfficiencyCloudability

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IA Storage BasicsAWS S3 Standard - Infrequent Access

๏ Less frequently accessed data

๏ Exists at object level and can sit side by side with Standard in an S3 Bucket

๏ Min billable object size (128k)

๏ Min storage time (30 days)

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IA Storage BasicsAWS S3 Standard - Infrequent Access

๏ Less frequently accessed data

๏ Exists at object level and can sit side by side with Standard in an S3 Bucket

๏ Min billable object size (128k)

๏ Min storage time (30 days)

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S3 Bucket Level WidgetsCloudability Resource Analytics

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Glacier BasicsAWS Glacier

๏ Very infrequently accessed data and long-term backups

๏ Secure, durable, low-cost*

๏ Redundant storage and systematic integrity checks

๏ Min storage time before restore (90 days)

๏ Max data retrieval (5% of total monthly Glacier storage)

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Cloud Storage BasicsWhat is AWS Simple Storage Service?

๏ Secure, durable, scalable, Cloud object storage

๏ S3 Standard, S3 Standard - IA, Glacier

๏ Misalignment in data location by storage term length can be very costly

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Going Further

- Turn off instances that are not being used- Autoscale resources down when load decreases- Turn off dev/test/stage resources at night - Rightsize the instance size/type to the load- Migrate from old instance families to new ones (e.g., m1 to m3)

- Optimize Reserved Instances - Employ a ‘stopinator’ or Janitor Monkey- Use Spot Instances for asynchronous workloads

Many ways to increase efficiency…

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