Why you need to track costs and eliminate waste

Cloud Cost Optimization is all about minimizing cloud spend by incorporating best practices such as identifying and downsizing underutilized resources, eliminating waste, using discounted instances, and designing workloads for scalability. Pricing for public cloud services depend on resources ordered, and remain unchanged when not in use. The majority of cloud spend goes towards compute and storage resources, therefore it is key to optimize cost in order to maximize return on investment (RoI) and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). Our Cloud Cost Optimization Service (CCOS) involves a review of your cloud infrastructure followed by a report and recommendations to eliminate waste and minimize costs. The report covers information on aspects such as instances, resource utilization, reserved instances, and service changes.

Strategies and Solutions for AWS Cost Optimization

Reduce AWS costs using cloud management technology in combination with some critical cost optimization techniques:

1. Kill unused instances
2. Schedule downtimes for unused resources
3. Savings Plan / Reserved Instance pre-purchases
4. Intelligent placement of new instances
5. Rightsizing existing instances

*Many more cloud cost optimization techniques are possible off course, but we just highlighted the obvious ones... *

Deliverables

• This service is provided by an AWS Architect that leverages CloudCheckr as a cost management and compliance tool.
• Custom reporting from CloudCheckr is combined with information gathered throughout the engagement to get a detailed view of the current AWS usage.
• You will receive our Cloud Cost Optimization Report which identifies and details specific opportunities to reduce cost in your AWS environment, along with remediation recommendations

**CCOS can be provided as a one-time service, but as Cloud Cost Optimization is an ongoing service, we provide this offering as a complete Managed Service as well. **