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Oct 24th, 2024 | 5 min read

Best Open Source Tools for Amazon EBS

What are the best open-source tools for your Amazon EBS setup? Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides scalable, high-performance block storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances. It is an essential

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Oct 03rd, 2024 | 3 min read

Simplyblock vs Local NVMe Disk on AWS

Best Storage Solution on AWS The debate over the optimal storage solution has been ongoing. Local instance storage on AWS (i.e. ephemeral NVMe disk attached to EC2 instance) brings remarkable cost-per

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Sep 19th, 2024 | 9 min read

Simplyblock for AWS: Environments with many gp2 or gp3 Volumes

When operating your stateful workloads in Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, data is commonly stored on Amazon’s EBS volumes. AWS supports a set of different volume types which offer different performance r

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Sep 12th, 2024 | 7 min read

AWS Migration – How to Migrate into the Cloud? Data Storage Perspective.

Migrating to the cloud can be daunting, but with the right approach and understanding of the storage perspective, it becomes a manageable and rewarding process. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a comp

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Aug 12th, 2024 | 10 min read

AWS Storage Optimization: Best Practices for Cost and Performance

Managing storage costs in AWS environments has become increasingly critical as organizations scale their cloud infrastructure. With storage often representing 20-30% of cloud spending, AWS storage opt

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Apr 17th, 2024 | 7 min read

Block Storage Volume Pooling for the Cloud-Age

If you have services running in the AWS, you’ll eventually need block storage to store data. Services like Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) provide block storage to be used in your EC2 instances,

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Mar 29th, 2024 | 13 min read

How the CSI (Container Storage Interface) Works

Editorial: This blog post is written by a guest author, Steven Sklar from QuestDB . It appeared first on his private blog at sklar.rocks . We appreciate his contributions to the Kubernetes ecosystem a

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Feb 28th, 2024 | 8 min read

AWS EBS Pricing: A Comprehensive Guide

In the vast landscape of cloud computing, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) stands out as a crucial component for storage in AWS’ Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), as well as other AWS

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Oct 23rd, 2023 | 5 min read

9 Best Open Source Tools for Apache Kafka

What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka has become the backbone of many modern data pipelines, offering distributed event streaming for building real-time data applications. As Kafka’s adoption conti

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Apr 05th, 2023 | 2 min read

Simplyblock for AWS – Whitepaper

Simplyblock has recognized the limitations of conventional cloud storage services, specifically AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) , and has introduced a groundbreaking alternative. This whitepaper prese

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