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The True Cost of Over-Provisioning: How to Optimize Your AWS Storage
Over-provisioning in AWS Storage leads to wasted resources and high costs. Learn how to optimize storage and pay only for what you use

Chris Engelbert
Oct 10, 20248 min read


What is the AWS Workload Migration Program and how simplyblock can help you with cloud migration?
Short guide on AWS Workload Migration Program and its benefits as well as challenges. Simplyblock as key element of storage migration.

Rob Pankow
Sep 12, 20245 min read


AWS Migration - How to Migrate into the Cloud? Data Storage Perspective.
Short overview of migration into AWS from data perspective. Why to migrate and how to do that? What are the limitations?

Rob Pankow
Sep 12, 20245 min read


The True Cost of Database Management: RDS vs. EKS
Comparison of true costs between self-hosted databases and managed database services. Example of Postgres on EKS vs RDS.

Rob Pankow
Sep 12, 202410 min read


AWS Cloud Storage Types and Costs - short guide
Explore AWS Storage services: S3, EBS, EFS, and Glacier. Learn their features, use cases, & pricing to optimize data management and costs.

Rob Pankow
Aug 12, 20246 min read


What is AWS Marketplace?
AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that simplifies the process of finding, buying, and deploying third-party software and services on AWS.

Rob Pankow
Aug 7, 20247 min read


Rockset alternatives: migrate with simplyblock
Explore top Rockset alternatives and learn how simplyblock's NVMe-based storage can supercharge your data migration.

Rob Pankow
Jul 24, 20244 min read


How to reduce AWS cloud costs with AWS marketplace products?
Key drivers of AWS Cloud costs, how to optimize aws cost & what tools are available in the AWS Marketplace to help you.

Rob Pankow
Jun 28, 20247 min read


What are AWS Credits and how to get them?
What are AWS Credits, how they work and how to get them? Overview of all key aspects of free AWS Startup Credits.

Rob Pankow
Jun 18, 20247 min read


How to benefit from AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP)
Learn what is AWS EDP and how it works. Learn negotiation strategies and alternatives for startups. Understand AWS Marketplace spend.

Rob Pankow
Jun 13, 20245 min read


How we build our Distributed Data Placement Algorithm for a Storage Clusters in Cloud Environments
To combine data durability, high performance, fault tolerance, and scalability, simplyblock had to rethink the distributed data placement.

Rob Pankow
May 22, 20247 min read


Building a Time Series Database in the Cloud with Steven Sklar from QuestDB (video + interview)
Steven Sklar from QuestDB talks about how they implemented the Kubernetes orchestration and storage layer for their QuestDB cloud offering.

Chris Engelbert
Apr 12, 202413 min read


What is a Kubernetes Persistent Volume?
A persistent volume is a slice of storage, provisioned by an Kubernetes administrator, that can be attached and mounted to pods. Like...

Chris Engelbert
Apr 3, 20245 min read


AWS Cost Optimization with Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting (interview)
AutoSpotting, a company helping to cost-optimize their AWS EC2 spent by automatically supplying matching workloads with spot instances.

Chris Engelbert
Mar 28, 20243 min read


Kubernetes for AI, GKE, and serverless with Abdellfetah Sghiouar from Google (interview)
Abdel Sghiouar from Google talks to us about GKE, Kubernetes, CNCF, serverless and the future of containerization.

Chris Engelbert
Mar 22, 202418 min read
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