Optimizing your storage with Amazon S3
So far, we’ve seen how we should store data optimally and how we can manage data to optimize data retrieval and accelerate the analytic workloads. The techniques primarily work on the data itself, such as storing data with columnar formats, data compaction, and more. Not only does it handle data itself optimally, but it’s also important to think about optimization on the storage side.
Our data, such as logs of web access, device data, and so on, is continuously reported, and that data size grows over time. As the storage usage increases, the cost increases, too. To reduce the cost of storage usage, usually, we archive data that is not frequently or ever accessed. Generally, we can divide data into the following tiers based on the frequency of access to it:
