Overview
Looking to reduce your AWS costs without sacrificing performance and availability?
EBS Optimizer is our powerful cloud optimization engine that automatically converts existing EBS volumes to more cost-effective and often more performant GP3 volumes, reliably and without any configuration changes.
Key Features of EBS Optimizer
- Save Money: Achieve savings between 8% and 95% depending on your existing volumes' configurations, typically 20% for GP2 volumes under 170GB.
- Transparent Conversions: Instances using the converted volumes continue to run without any disruption.
- Same Performance: Get the same or better IOPS and throughput as your initial GP2 volume.
How EBS Optimizer Works
- EBS Optimizer runs continuously in your AWS account, converting volumes tagged with optimize: true (opt-in mode) or not tagged with optimize: false (opt-out mode).
- The conversion is transparent to any EC2 instances using these volumes, allowing instances to keep running as if nothing happened. You only observe decreased costs at the end of the month.
- For large GP2 volumes IOPS and throughput are provisioned by default to match the GP2 volume. Besides the reduced costs, GP2 Volumes smaller than 170 GB will also get better througoupt and IOPS after conversion.
- You can configure custom tags for specific volumes or disable conversions for certain volumes for a gradual rollout.
- It can optionally also convert IO1 and IO2 volumes to GP3 for up to 95% lower costs, also keeping the same IOPS and throughput, but with increased I/O latency.
Pricing
EBS Optimizer charges a month's worth of savings each year, so around 8.33% of the total annual savings.
It then covers any number of volume replacements within the same monthly savings free of charge for the next year.
Get Started with EBS Optimizer
It just takes a few minutes to get started:
- Tag Your Volumes: Tag the volumes you want to convert or not with the appropriate optimize key and value (true or false), depending on the opt-in or opt-out configuration you desire. You can use the open source awstaghelper tool to make it easier for multiple volumes.
- Install EBS Optimizer: Install EBS Optimizer from the AWS Marketplace using CloudFormation, making sure you configure it in opt-in/opt-out mode as planned.
Click "Continue to Subscribe" above and follow the instructions.
Need Help? We're Here For You
Our team is always ready to help you get started with EBS Optimizer. If you have any questions or need assistance, please don't hesitate to:
- Check out our website for more information about EBS Optimizer.
- Connect with us on Slack
- Book a call with us via Calendly .
For more information about our other products and services, visit our LeanerCloud.com website , and also check out our other product AutoSpotting for additional AWS cost-saving opportunities.
Highlights
- **Automatic Volume Conversion:** Effortlessly convert GP2, IO1, and IO2 EBS volumes to the more cost-effective GP3 volume type
- **Maintain IOPS and Throughput:** EBS Optimizer ensures the same performance for large GP2 volumes where performance increased with size, automatically calculating and provisioning IOPS and throughput on the GP3 volumes to match GP2.
- **Seamless Conversion:** Running instances keep running without any disruptions.
Details
Pricing
Dimension | Cost/unit |
|---|---|
up to 5% of hourly savings | $0.001 |
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No Refunds
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Delivery details
CloudFormation infrastructure code
- Amazon ECS
Container image
Containers are lightweight, portable execution environments that wrap server application software in a filesystem that includes everything it needs to run. Container applications run on supported container runtimes and orchestration services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Both eliminate the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software by managing and scheduling containers on a scalable cluster of virtual machines.
Version release notes
- Add support for controlling the conversion of volumes based on tags, only converting volumes having a certain expected tag, by default the key optimize and valuetrue.
- Made configurable and disabled by default the conversion of IO1 and IO2 volumes, which usually suffer from significantly increased latency when converted to GP3.
- Implemented an opt-out mode, in which all volumes are updated unless tagged with the key optimize and valuetrue.
- Change billing to only charge a one-off conversion fee and cover volume replacements for that volume for a year.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Install the template in the US-East (Virginia) region using the convenient one-click installation method mentioned below. It will work with volumes from any other regions.
You can also download the CloudFormation template in case you want to see what's under the hood, if you want to have more control on the installation process or if you want to deploy it to your entire AWS Organization as a StackSet.
Feel free to ask for support at contact@leanercloud.com if you need any help with the installation process, including more advanced advanced installation methods.
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If you have any questions or need help, email us at contact@cloudutil.io or reach out on Slack and we'll do our best to help you.
if you need any sort of support with EBS Optimizer.
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