E35: COSTLY VERSIONS: The Cost of Mismanaging Storage Capacity

IS THE COST WORTH IT? Many organizations have skyrocketing cloud costs because of failing to manage their storage well. Today, our Cloud duo, Nick and Jason will be discussing how a storage that keeps growing can affect your cost exponentially. The two will also explain the problems with versioning as a remedy and what truly solves this issue. Learn more in this latest episode of Cloud Cost Optimization. WORDS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR DAY NICK: INVENTORY IS THE FIRST THING TO DO “Turning on versioning, and not setting a policy, not adding a rule to manage out those versions can lead to all sorts of problems. One of them that I think people don't understand is that even if you delete an object in an S3 bucket with versioning, turned on the object is stored plus, all of its previous versions are stored forever and ever until you have a policy created that says, you know, take any deleted or take any non-current object and actually get rid of it.” Get to know our hosts in the links below: Nick Lumsden: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklumsden/ Jason Yaeger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonyaeger/ Get a free assessment and optimize your environment in TenacityCloud.com: https://www.tenacitycloud.com/