Deep Dive on Architecting Storage Application for the Public Cloud Economy

The public cloud presents a new economic model on computing - "pay as you go" model in which you pay only for what you consume, but you pay for everything: compute, storage, networking, QoS and more. This model suggests new considerations for applications architecture that minimize public cloud cost, the presentation discusses the need for storage applications on public cloud, new architecture considerations (with applicability for all types of applications) and presents alternatives for cost reduction of storage applications in the public cloud. This presentation is a sequel to the presentation in SDC EMEA 2020, and includes more in depth discussion on instance storage usage as well as discussing ways to use spot instances for storage.

Learning Objectives

Why we need storage applications in the public cloud (why not use the cloud provider services directly),Understand the economic model of public cloud distributed applications,How we can architect and configure storage applications that will cost less when deployed on a public cloud, utilizing lowest cost resources.