ECO-ARC-ARCH-008 — Hot storage used for cold data

• Category: Architecture (ARC)
• Family: Architecture (ARCH)
• Layer: Architecture
• Tier: 3
• Severity: warning
• Tags: storage, tiering
• Legacy ID: ECO-ARCH-008

Summary

Keeping cold data in hot tiers wastes storage spend and energy.

Rationale

Tiering aligns cost and energy with access patterns.

Impact

{
  "confidence": 0.7,
  "notes": "Often large savings.",
  "type": "storage"
}

Detection

{
  "languages": [
    "infra"
  ],
  "method": "trace"
}

Remediation

{
  "guidance": "Introduce lifecycle policies and cold tiers.",
  "tradeoffs": "Retrieval latency and costs."
}

Ontology

{
  "system_layers": [
    "architecture"
  ]
}