Amazon S3 Tips, Tricks, and Resources
How Disorganized S3 Storage Impacts Your Bottom Line (Part 1)
Amazon S3 has become the cornerstone of data storage for businesses of all sizes. Its scalability and seeming simplicity make it an attractive solution for growing companies. Beneath this simplicity, however, lies a potential financial pitfall that many SMBs overlook: the hidden costs of disorganized S3 storage. Amazon S3 makes it easy to upload and forget, but this convenience can silently drain your resources when left unchecked.
Variable Workloads in Amazon S3: Cost Optimization
Managing storage costs for variable workloads in Amazon S3 presents a unique challenge for organizations dealing with fluctuating data access patterns. Whether you're handling seasonal data spikes, development environments, or media libraries with unpredictable popularity, traditional storage tier management often results in either overspending on high-performance storage or compromising accessibility with lower-cost tiers.
How to Detect and Clean Up Unused Amazon S3 Buckets
As an AWS Cloud Administrator, managing Amazon S3 storage can become increasingly complex over time. Amazon S3 buckets tend to accumulate, and identifying which ones are genuinely needed versus those that are unused or forgotten presents a challenge. To help you avoid these many pitfalls, we will walk you through proven methods to detect and clean up unused S3 buckets while maintaining security and compliance.
Amazon S3 vs. EFS vs. FSx for SaaS
SaaS companies often struggle with choosing the right storage solution. It can make or break your application's performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. AWS offers three powerful storage options: S3, EFS, and FSx. Understanding the nuanced differences between these services is crucial for SaaS architects and technical leaders looking to optimize their storage strategy.
S3 Storage Browser vs. CloudSee Drive
As an S3 administrator, you're probably all too familiar with the headaches: Users constantly asking for help accessing files, developers building (and maintaining) custom interfaces, and the endless challenge of keeping everything secure and efficient. Recently, two distinct solutions have emerged to tackle these problems: AWS's new open-source Storage Browser for S3 and Webapper's CloudSee Drive.
