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ECO-DAT-DATA-011

Name: Lack of compression in object storage

Category: DAT

Family: DATA

Primary layer: data

System layers: data

Description

Uncompressed objects waste storage and bandwidth.

Impact

  • confidence: 0.7
  • notes: Especially strong for text/structured data.
  • type: storage

Detection

  • languages:
  • infra
  • method: trace

Remediation

  • guidance: Compress at write; enforce content-encoding where appropriate.
  • tradeoffs: CPU overhead at read/write.

Pattern examples

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Remediation examples

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