AWS Podcast #710: Amazon S3: From Simple Storage to Smart Scaling
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Mar 3, 2025 Wali Akbari, a principal solution architect and storage specialist at AWS, dives into the latest advancements of Amazon S3, revolutionizing data storage solutions. He discusses new features like S3 Metadata and S3 Express OneZone, emphasizing strong consistency for optimized application performance. Listeners will discover pro tips for managing data at scale and how Intelligent Tiering can dramatically reduce storage costs. Wali also covers monitoring tools that provide insights on storage capacity and access trends, integral for cloud architects and developers.
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Storage Cost Optimization
- Storage grows and never shrinks, so cost is a concern.
- Tiering storage based on access frequency helps manage costs.
Default to Intelligent Tiering
- Start with S3 Intelligent Tiering as your default storage option.
- Use lifecycle policies only when data classification and access patterns are known.
S3 Data Management and Observability
- S3 offers various data management and observability tools.
- These tools provide both macro and micro-level views of data.