Reduce your Amazon EBS
costs with these tips
costs with these tips
These proven tips can save you up to 30% on AWS costs!
* Savings are averaged out across customers & services
Elastic Block Store (EBS) cost saving tips Optimize your Elastic Block Store (EBS) costs with these tips
Right-size EBS Volumes
Identify overprovisioned or underutilized EBS volumes and resize or terminate them. This ensures you only pay for the required storage, saving costs.
Monitor EBS Usage
Regularly monitor EBS volume usage and IOPS using AWS services like CloudWatch. Reducing overprovisioned IOPS based on usage could save costs.
Manage Snapshots Regularly
Delete unused, old EBS snapshots which accumulate charges. Use tools like AWS Data Lifecycle Manager to automate this process, helping to remove unnecessary snapshots and save costs.
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About Elastic Block Store (EBS) Service information & pricing
About Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) offers a scalable, high-performance storage service for Amazon EC2. It's suitable for demanding workloads, including mission-critical apps like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. With high availability and 99.999% durability, EBS safeguards against failures and enables versatile storage volumes, ranging from cost-effective to high-performance. Users can construct their cloud Storage Area Network (SAN), operate databases, and resize clusters for big data analytics.
Elastic Block Store (EBS) pricing
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) pricing depends on monthly provisioned storage size. Extra costs are added for exceeding baseline input/output operations (IOPS) and throughput. EBS Snapshots' cost depends on utilized storage, snapshot retrievals and storage in the Archive tier. The Fast Snapshot Restore feature incurs charges per Data Services Unit-Hour (DSU-Hour) for each snapshot in each availability zone. Charges apply for Amazon EBS direct API use.
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