Excluding costs, there are 2 main things that makes AWS great: large number of services offered and integration between those services. And for the last category, a good example is the integration between AWS S3 and Glacier. With only few clicks in the S3 console, you can create a lifecycle rule that automatically moves objects […]
Tag: S3
How data encoding can influence your bill
Because our recently published article about how to cut your S3 costs has had a very good feedback, we decided to dive deep into this subject and to explain how the encoding format you choose affects the S3 bill. S3 doesn’t know and doesn’t care what kind of files you insert. It’s up to you […]
How to reduce your S3 costs
Amazon S3 was the first service launched by AWS in March 2006. Among all words used to shape a disruptive product – scalable, reliable, fast, simple – one has been important: cheap. At that time, the cost was 2 orders of magnitude lower than operating your redundant data storage. Nowadays, S3 continues to be one […]
S3 vs DynamoDB price comparison
In this post we’ll change the topic and instead of implementation details we presented recently, we are going to analyze the prices for 2 of the most used AWS services. Does this sound like comparing apples and oranges? Nothing better! Go ahead and read this to the end to convince if you are right or […]