CLOUD COST MANAGEMENT

Accessing Your RI Purchase Recommendations and Identifying Opportunities for Cost Optimization

AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog | October 10, 2018

In this post, I focus on how AWS customers can build on the insights gleaned from analyzing your utilization and savings to take action on opportunities to increase their cost efficiency using Reserved Instances. View Publication

Managing Your Cost Savings with Amazon Reserved Instances

AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog | August 27, 2018

One of the key areas where organizations can unlock significant savings is by purchasing Reserved Instances (RIs) and other reservation-based offerings, which are currently offered by Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elasticsearch. View Publication

Controlling How Your AWS Credits and RI Discounts are Shared Across Your Organization

AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog | July 11, 2018

One of the key areas where organizations can unlock significant savings is by purchasing Reserved Instances (RIs) and other reservation-based offerings, which are currently offered by Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elasticsearch. Co-author: Devika Nair. View Publication

Using AWS Cost Management products to help save costs on Amazon RDS Reserved Instances

AWS Database Blog | May 23, 2018

Using Amazon RDS, AWS customers can quickly and easily set up, operate, and scale their relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS Reserved Instances (RIs) give customers the option to reserve a database instance for a one- or three- year term, which can translate into significant discounts as compared to On-Demand prices. Co-author: Eugene Khvostov. View Publication

Getting Started with AWS Cost Management

AWS Startups Blog | July 6, 2017

With AWS, you only pay for what you use, which results in a variable cost model, much like a utility bill. The more you use, the more you pay, and the less you use, the less you pay. Though this cost model can mean significant infrastructure cost savings for your organization, it also might require you to think differently about architecting, managing, and operating in your AWS environment. Co-author: Andy Elmhorst. View Publication