Category: AWS Cloud Financial Management

A global technology firm migrated its massive on-premises Apache Hadoop data center to Amazon EMR and achieved major cost savings and capabilities. By deploying Pepperdata’s optimization software, which works in real-time to maximize resource utilization, the firm achieved nearly 25% additional cost reduction on top of its Amazon EMR savings, without any code changes or manual tuning. Learn how Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer rapidly identifies existing nodes where more jobs could be completed.

Dynamically adjusting infrastructure capacity based on usage fluctuations allows you to gain operational and cost benefits. Learn how Zesty Disk helps achieve greater cost efficiency and consistent performance when managing Amazon EBS volumes, and how to optimize storage at run time without adding complexity or being exposed to data on the disk. Zesty Disk’s auto-scaling technology eliminates the need for manual adjustments, streamlining operations and reducing the cognitive load for developers.

To embark on a successful journey of mainframe modernization, it’s crucial to have a plan that aligns with business priorities and technical drivers. AWS Mainframe Modernization Service provides multiple approaches to meet customers’ objectives. Some of these approaches are automated from assessment to migration, and this post provides an overview of the relevance, challenges, approach, and methodology employed by Wipro and AWS

If you’re an AWS Lambda user who has yet to migrate your functions to Arm, how much performance uplift, cost savings, or both can you expect depending on the kind of workload or runtime you use? Learn how Cascadeo designed an experiment to tease out a data-driven view of Arm vs. x86 Lambdas functions and found that switching to Arm-based Lambdas can have significant benefits in terms of performance or cost—and a lot of times both!

Learn how EPI-USE ERP PAY provides end-to-end automated reconciliation to SAP with a consolidated view on all external digital payment touchpoints in the organization. EPI-USE ERP Pay is designed and built by EPI-USE Payment Services to address these challenges for SAP clients without the need to change Payment Service Providers or introduce additional software in the client landscape. The AWS SDK for SAP ABAP supports SAP NetWeaver ABAP version 7.4 and above.

AWS Graviton processors are designed to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2 and the most cost-effective and performant choice for graph database workloads running Neo4j. Tests have shown that deploying Neo4j with AWS Graviton-based instances results in cost savings of up to 15% as well as a boost for write performance of up to 146% over equivalent Intel-based instances.

Telecom operators are increasingly migrating to AWS and cost savings is one of the primary drivers. Learn how DigitalRoute’s benchmarks show that by migrating to AWS and taking advantage of services like AWS Fargate and AWS Graviton, telecom operators can retain their on-premises performance while seeing cost reductions when deploying the Usage Engine Private Edition on AWS. DigitalRoute is collaborating with AWS to enable telecom and communication service providers.

Managing cloud costs has become a top, strategic priority for most IT executives. When considering how to manage cloud cost, there are several primary paths that can be taken to lower total cost of ownership (TCO), both technical and non-technical. In this post, experts from SMX and AWS discuss how leveraging data-driven analysis and tools can improve decisions that impact short- and long-term spend.

For years, the Aurea team managed and maintained 120+ AWS-hosted SaaS products across hundreds of AWS accounts. With escalating costs, they needed a way to identify cost savings across their accounts and applications in a safe and scalable way. Learn how Aurea responded to this challenge by developing CloudFix, a scalable solution for finding and fixing cost-saving opportunities in your AWS environment. CloudFix is an AWS cost optimization tool that helps you adopt and use AWS services efficiently.

Embracing cloud FinOps presents organizations with a solution to drive the right governance model and align business and engineering teams to accelerate business value. Deloitte is a FinOps Certified Service Provider and its services help customers examine and plan for cloud consumption and monitor costs to minimize cloud-spend waste. By implementing the Deloitte FinOps framework, organizations gain a holistic understanding of their cloud usage and costs to help them make data-driven decisions.