Tag: EBS
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Rahil Parekh
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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Rob Pankow
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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Michael Schmidt
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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Rob Pankow
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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Rob Pankow
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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Rob Pankow
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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Steven Sklar (Guest Author, QuestDB)
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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Chris Engelbert
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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Rahil Parekh
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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Rob Pankow
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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