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AWS re:Invent 2023 - Improve Amazon EBS efficiency and be more cost-efficient (STG218)

Summary

Alexei, CTO and co-founder of Zesty, discusses the challenge of balancing stability, performance, and cost in AWS EBS volumes.
He compares traditional EBS provisioning to a gym membership, where users often over-provision and pay for unused resources.
Zesty optimizes storage infrastructure by adjusting EBS volumes to actual consumption using a predictive and automated system.
Zesty combines multiple EBS volumes into a virtual volume, allowing for flexible scaling and using a copy-on-write technique to safely detach and shrink volumes.
Magna, Director of Cloud Financial Operations at Securonix, shares her company's experience with Zesty, highlighting significant cost savings and operational efficiency.
Zesty integrates with AWS services like EMR and Batch, and supports workloads that scale up and down.
A new feature, compression, is announced, which can further reduce storage footprint by up to 40%.
Zesty Disk is integrated with AWS Marketplace for streamlined billing.
The talk concludes with an invitation to consider EBS utilization efficiency and the potential benefits of automated optimization.

Organizations often over-provision EBS volumes to ensure stability and performance, leading to inefficiencies and higher costs.
Zesty's solution addresses this by providing a dynamic and automated approach to EBS volume management, which can lead to significant cost reductions.
The use of a virtual volume that combines multiple EBS volumes allows for more granular scaling, both up and down, which is not natively supported by AWS.
The real-world case study from Securonix demonstrates the practical benefits of Zesty's solution, including a 50% reduction in provisioned storage and an increase in utilization from 40% to 80%.
Zesty's ability to integrate with AWS services and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation makes it a versatile solution for various AWS workloads.
The announcement of the compression feature indicates Zesty's ongoing commitment to innovation and cost savings.
The integration with AWS Marketplace simplifies the procurement and billing process for customers, making it easier to adopt Zesty's solution.
The presentation emphasizes the importance of rethinking attitudes towards cost optimization and performance in cloud environments, suggesting that automated and AI-driven tools are becoming a necessity.