Tag: Optimize and Save

One of the most common customer requests we receive is related to supporting containerized applications. Compute Optimizer now has recommendations to help you identify optimal CPU and memory configurations for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services running on AWS Fargate.

Learn how you can optimize your current AWS footprint with little to no architectural changes. Focus on improving price-to-performance without introducing engineering overhead, large planning cycles, and significant time investment.

All week long, our Cloud Financial Management experts have been speaking with customers and CFM practitioners from around the globe at re:Invent 2022. A few questions, time and again, have emerged as trending topics, so we’re answering them here, direct from the CFM kiosk.

AWS Compute Optimizer launched the capability to integrate with several leading application performance management and observability partners, so you can view recommendations for your resources, regardless of your application monitoring preference. You now have multiple options for acquiring and including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) memory metrics in your EC2 rightsizing recommendations.

Learn about Singular’s AWS Graviton adoption process including their mental model, project execution, and measurement of success, resulting in an improved price-to-performance ratio by 35%.

Here’s a sneak peek of the ways you can engage with the AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) team. Hope you find this cheat sheet helpful as you build your re:Invent catalog.  We’ll keep updating this blog as it approaches re:Invent to make sure we include all CFM activities, so you don’t miss out.

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 […]

Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model offering lower prices compared to On-Demand pricing, in exchange for a specific usage commitment (measured in $/hour) for a one or three-year period. AWS offers three types of Savings Plans – Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans, and Amazon SageMaker Savings Plans. Compute Savings Plans apply to […]

Use multiple overlapping Savings Plans to reduce commitment risk, increase discount coverage, and relieve the burden of long-range usage predictions.

AWS pricing strategies offer you the flexibility to choose the most effective way to manage your costs and still keep the performance and capacity you require. Learn about Savings Plans and Reserved Instances and how you can decide what is right for your business.