EBS encryption is one of the easiest controls to get right — and one of the most expensive to retrofit. Account-level default encryption, re-encrypting legacy volumes without downtime, blocking public snapshots, and operating the KMS key lifecycle without losing data to accidental deletion.
S3 storage pricing is genuinely low. S3 request pricing, replication costs, and the compounding effects of versioning and lifecycle misconfiguration are not. Most expensive S3 bills have nothing to do with how much data you store.
A technical deep dive into EC2 performance optimization for API workloads — covering instance family selection, Graviton vs x86 economics, network tuning, EBS configuration, and Linux kernel parameters that directly impact throughput and tail latency.
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