AWS Storage Cost Management

Public cloud has many benefits, but reducing costs over time is not one of them.

“Cloud is expensive” is an often-repeated phrase among IT professionals, many times due to over-provisioning. Over-provisioning refers to the allocation of more resources than required by a specific workload. Over-provisioning isn’t an issue by itself, but it comes with a set of drawbacks such as high cost and wasted resources.

Over 75% of cloud storage is overprovisioned. You pay dollar for dollar for provisioned storage whether it is used or not. There is no data reduction, deduplication, compression, thin provisioning in AWS. It is a strict 1:1 provisioning ratio.

Additionally, over-provisioning can also contribute to issues such as:

Reduced budget for innovation
Complex and hard-to-manage infrastructures
Potential compliance issues in regulated industries
Decreased infrastructure efficiency

SOLUTION

Using Hitachi Vantara VSP ONE Software Defined Storage it is possible to address these issues while substantially reducing your costs. Benefits include:

Significant cost savings and can leverage existing AWS contracts
Enable Enterprise class management and administration with data reduction features in the cloud
Consolidate applications
Restore high availability
Enterprise level availability – go from three 9s to five 9s without increasing cloud costs.
Implement enterprise best practices

Capacity, Performance and Management Complexity’s based on native cloud volume Siloed Architecture
High cost and low utilization rates due to thick provisioning and no data efficiency
NO High availability options without high cost and Complexity

Consolidated Enterprise Storage Architecture
- Changing Volumes into Pools
Lower Cloud Storage Investment Up to 50%
- Utilize Thin Provisioning and Compression
Improved Public Cloud Resiliency
- Five 9s Availability with Patented Polyphase Erasure Coding Design

Keep data in the cloud, enhance your AWS experience with enterprise features all while reducing costs. We have seen an average savings of 42% and can provide a TCO calculator for your specific requirements to determine what those savings could be.