2 posts tagged with "ebs"

Short version: AWS gp3 EBS volumes cost ~20% less per GB than gp2 ($0.08 vs $0.10 per GB-month in us-east-1) and include 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s of baseline performance for free. You can convert a volume from gp2 to gp3 online, with no downtime and no snapshot: a single modify-volume call. For most volumes it is free money. Here is how to find them, migrate them, and the one caveat to check.

Short version: EBS snapshots cost $0.05/GB-month and nobody ever deletes them. Backups from volumes and AMIs that were removed years ago keep billing. For snapshots you must retain but rarely touch, the archive tier is ~75% cheaper ($0.0125/GB-month). Here is how to find the pile, delete what is dead, and archive what is not.