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Optimizing AWS Snapshot Costs: Best Practices for Cost Optimization
- Regularly reviewing and deleting old EBS snapshots helps avoid unnecessary storage costs.
- Automating AWS snapshot management with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager saves time and reduces operational complexity.
- Analyzing EBS usage helps identify cost optimization opportunities, including resizing volumes and provisioning IOPS.
- Proper storage tiering with S3 helps reduce costs by using the appropriate storage class based on access patterns.
- Data lifecycle policies help manage storage efficiently by archiving or deleting unused data and compressing data before storage.
- Monitoring storage metrics in S3 or EBS can help optimize resource utilization and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Choosing the right EBS volume type, such as General-purpose SSDs (gp2, gp3) or Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1, io2), can improve performance.
- EBS-Optimized Instances can provide dedicated bandwidth between EC2 instances and EBS volumes, leading to improved performance.
- Moving older EBS snapshots to cheaper S3 storage and utilizing S3 storage classes can further optimize costs.
- Implementing lifecycle policies and monitoring storage metrics with tools such as Amazon S3 Storage Lens is crucial for optimizing resource utilization and cost control.
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