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n a digital-first world, storage efficiency is critical to controlling costs and supporting high performance. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), a foundational storage option in the AWS suite, is integral for many businesses but comes with challenges—namely, high costs and complex management.

In the world of cloud storage, over-provisioning is a significant and costly challenge, particularly with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS). Unlike other resources, EBS presents unique difficulties in right-sizing due to AWS's inherent limitations in visibility, flexibility, and prediction capabilities. Let’s explore why over-provisioning is especially problematic in EBS and how Datafy provides a game-changing solution.

As we look ahead to 2025, the evolution of Cloud computing in general and specifically storage continues to reshape how businesses operate and innovate. The rapid growth of data, coupled with advances in technology, is driving a new era of opportunities for organizations leveraging the cloud.

After addressing initial EBS optimization strategies—like deleting unattached volumes, optimizing IOPS, and choosing the right disk types—the next step is aligning storage capacity with your actual business needs. This process, known as "right-sizing," begins by monitoring actual capacity utilization.

Modern applications often come with complex storage needs that go beyond data lake solutions like S3. While these storage services are ideal for specific use cases, managing Kubernetes-based workloads in Amazon EKS requires a more tailored approach.

When it comes to optimizing AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) costs, organizations often focus on a set of proven, foundational strategies. As a FinOps expert, I’ve seen many businesses jump into these optimizations with enthusiasm. And for good reason—they're practical, effective, and deliver tangible savings without much complexity.

As your AWS infrastructure grows, right-sizing your EBS volumes becomes crucial for both performance and cost efficiency. But what happens when your EBS volume is running out of space, or conversely, when it’s underutilized? Proper right-sizing is key to ensuring your storage remains optimized.

In the first blog of this series, I laid the groundwork by highlighting the importance of understanding and managing EBS costs. These costs are often overlooked aspects of cloud financial management. Now that we’ve established why EBS costs deserve your attention, it’s time to shift focus to strategy.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud storage, understanding the metrics that define your storage performance is key to optimizing both efficiency and cost. Among these metrics, IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) utilization and capacity

When diving into AWS storage solutions, you might think performance metrics are straightforward, but there's more to it. AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance has two key metrics: Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and Bandwidth (BW). These metrics, similar to those used to measure the performance of an SSD or HDD, are crucial for optimizing your storage efficiency and managing costs effectively. Understanding the differences between IOPS and Bandwidth can help you get the most

Hello, everyone! My name is Ran, and I've been involved in FinOps since it was known as Cloud Economics. For over a decade, I have focused on the financial aspects of cloud computing. In this series, I’ll explore the financial side of the cloud, with a special focus on Elastic Block Storage (EBS). I have some great tips coming up, so stay tuned and let me know what you think!

It happens to the best Cloud professionals when managing Cloud costs. It's difficult to track costs and specifically storage, as it's very technical and difficult to understand on AWS.

So how do choose the right type? Let's dig in. The most commonly used EBS volume type is gp2/gp3. gp3 is the successor to gp2 and is the default volume type if you don’t select a volume type. Both gp2 and gp3 have similar characteristics, and unless you have a strong reason to use sc1/st1 or io1/io2, this is probably what you want to use.

Cloud computing is in its hyper-growth phase, one of the most crucial points of keeping ahead of the curve is to manage Cloud storage efficiently. One of the key storage solutions offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for computation and business logic is the Elastic Block Store (EBS).