HOW CANVA SAVES MILLIONS ANNUALLY IN AMAZON S3 COSTS

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Canva stores more than 230 Petabytes of data from its production environments in Amazon S3, with the single largest S3 bucket coming in at a whopping 45 Petabytes. In this blog post, Canva’s engineering team dives into how they have visibility over these vast quantities of data and how moving large amounts of this data to Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval met their use cases and saved them millions of dollars annually. The team analyzed the usage of various pieces of data in their system and identified what kinds of data worked best to be moved off of the main S3 bucket. These data use cases included log retrieval and backups. As a result of these changes, Canva saves over $3.6 million annually.