Leaven Cost Optimisation or the Economic Analysis for Cloud service is designed to investigate cost reduction opportunities and strategies specific to a client’s situation, helping them understand the economic considerations of an AWS-based implementation. The analysis provides qualitative and quantitative information to support business cases and cloud migration planning efforts.

When implemented, the service delivers:

• objective, fact-based analysis of people, process, and technology
• cost reduction opportunities and strategies specific to client’s situation
• qualitative and quantitative financial information to inform business decisions; and
• evaluation of cloud delivery models to help support economic decision-making.

Many organisations need to understand the economic rationale for adopting a public cloud solution. By looking at the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the return on investment (ROI) clients can establish an understanding of quantitative and qualitative business drivers across an organisation's people, process and technology allowing them to make a detailed and informed decision about moving to AWS, and the benefits that may be realised through the ongoing adoption and consumption of AWS cloud services.

Tangible benefits

• Tailored approach specific to business parameters
• Customised analysis of qualitative and quantitative business drivers
• Greater accuracy in the information used to measure the financial impact for cloud adoption
• More comprehensive, vendor agnostic, and customisable than free calculator services
• Not just a cost analysis, it includes multi-factor analysis of people, process, and technology
• Evaluates public, private cloud, and co-location to determine lowest cost target for different workloads