Engineering shares rarely touched CAD drawing archives on Amazon EFS. Most files are old reference sets opened a few times a year. How can the city lower EFS storage cost for that cold shared data?
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Short Explanation
Old drawings that gather digital dust belong on EFS Infrequent Access, not the everyday tier. Lifecycle to IA and stop paying hot-file prices for cold shared archives. Turning off encryption, hourly public S3 dumps, or a trailer laptop aren’t cost governance.
Full Explanation
Amazon EFS Infrequent Access, typically via lifecycle policies, reduces storage cost for files that are rarely read while keeping them available on the shared file system. Disabling security controls is not a sound cost strategy. Continuous public S3 copies and single-laptop instance store undermine durability, sharing, and security. EFS IA is the intended cost optimization for cold shared engineering archives.