Organizations are under significant pressure to control costs, especially under adverse economic conditions. Slalom helps our clients identify areas for cost optimization within their AWS environment by conducting a Well Architected Review with a focus on Cost Optimization. The Well Architected Review (WAR) is designed to help AWS users review and improve their cloud-based architectures and better understand the business impact of design decisions. This offering helps our clients identify areas for adopting best practices to build and operate cost-aware systems that achieve business outcomes while minimizing costs which allows for a maximum return on investment.

How it works:

• Step 1: Expenditure Awareness
  • Understand and attribute resource costs to individual organizations or product owners
• Step 2: Cost Effective Resources
  • Understand flexible pricing options to utilize services that best fit your needs
• Step 3: Matching Supply & Demand (rightsizing & elasticity)
  • Apply auto-scaling and demand, buffer and time-based approaches to allow for adding and removing resources as necessary
• Step 4: Optimizing over time
  • Conduct regular reviews of existing architectures against new products and services