AWS Cloud Financial Management
ICYMI: Drive cost efficiency, learn how Salesforce innovated and saved, and optimize cost savings
By continually cost optimizing, you can maximize the value of the cloud for your business. You can build modern, scalable applications that maintain the performance and capacity you require, while avoiding any over spending associated with over provisioned or idle resources. There are a variety of ways you can take control of your cloud spend to maximize efficiency while increasing your ability to innovate and deliver more value to the business.
Here are this month’s top 3 resources to help you get started identifying and executing cloud cost optimization opportunities.
[AWS Smart Business Blog]
1. Five ways smart businesses can drive greater efficiency amid rising costs
Businesses can do little to stop post-pandemic, macro-economic trends like rising energy costs or inflation, but they do have the power to optimize their business strategies to increase overall efficiency. Here are five things Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) can do to approach current business challenges and find optimization opportunities.
[AWS Customer Success Stories]
2. Salesforce UIP Uses Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to Reduce Data Processing Times by More than 90% and Save Over $1 Million Monthly
The Unified Intelligence Platform Team (UIP) of Salesforce manages a petabyte-level data lake, and was looking to innovate the analysis and processing of data, with an eye toward cost savings and greater efficiency. Find out how it built a scalable, elastic compute infrastructure with AWS that allowed it to process twice as much data in less time, while saving the company over $1 million monthly.
[AWS Cloud Financial Management Blog]
3. Key ways to start optimizing your AWS cloud costs
With AWS, you can build modern, scalable applications to achieve business outcomes while minimizing costs and maximizing return on investment. To help you get started, or to improve your current cost optimization processes, we answer the top 3 customer questions on how to take control of your costs and continuously optimize your cloud spend.