Cost management and governance
As organizations grow their cloud footprint, they require visibility into resource consumption and the ability to manage spend across their multi-account environments. Integrating cost management solutions into AWS Control Tower helps customers proactively manage costs and resources in AWS accounts upon creation, streamlining spend management at scale.
Solutions
CloudCheckr
CloudCheckr CMx unifies disparate data sources to provide immediate and actionable insights. These insights allow end users to achieve significant cost savings, while ensuring the highest level of AWS security and compliance. When integrated with AWS Control Tower, end users can quickly create new AWS Accounts and seamlessly apply a multi-functional toolkit of cloud governance solutions.
Over 600 best practice checks for security, performance, availability, and cost efficiency
Actionable insights and optimization recommendations
Compliance benchmarking for over 35 international frameworks
Comprehensive and customizable reporting
Remediation and self-healing automation
Continuous configuration and utilization analysis
How it works
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Cornell University
Solution
cloudtamer.io
cloudtamer.io is comprehensive governance software solution that delivers visibility and control of cloud workloads. Building on AWS Control Tower security and account baselining capabilities, cloudtamer.io provides insights into reporting and planning, allocates proper budgeting, and prevents overspending. cloudtamer.io allows organizations to manage their cloud presence at scale through account management, budget enforcement, and compliance automation.
Hierarchical account governance to better allocate funds
Spending policies to proactively enforce responsible use of cloud services
Forecasted data reports
Account level spend tracking
Configurable enforcement actions to alert, freeze spending, and terminate resources when thresholds are exceeded
Identification of underutilized and unused resources
How it works
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Applied Insight
Solution
Flexera
Flexera Optima is a cost management and optimization solution that helps customers reduce cloud costs and manage their multi-account AWS environments to accelerate their business. With Optima, IT teams gain visibility and predictability into their cloud consumption, automate governance policies, and reduce wasted cloud spend. The platform includes support for team training, customizing recommendation rules, setting strategies for tagging and recommendations, and more.
Combined billing data and detailed usage information
Unused or underutilized cloud resource detection
Allocations for chargeback and show back to the appropriate cost centers or teams
Customized reporting for every part of your organization
Future cost forecasting
How it works
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Coupa
Coupa needed a more comprehensive view of their spending along with better cost control in a multi-cloud environment. With Flexera, Coupa gained complete visibility of their cloud spend including Reserved Instance (RI) usage, customized reporting, and other modifications. Thanks to Flexera’s recommendations, Coupa has achieved significant annual cost savings (up to 40%
on avg.), upgraded old instances, and gained deeper insights into their billing and data usage.
Solutions
Spot by NetApp features includes:
Spot by NetApp's solutions allows end users to fully leverage Amazon EC2 Spot Instances and reserved capacity without operational overhead and complexity. Spot by NetApp automates and optimizes your AWS infrastructure delivering SLA-backed availability and performance at the lowest possible cost. Machine learning and application-driven scaling enables you to run any workload, providing an optimal blend of Savings Plans, Reserved, Spot, and On-Demand Instances.
Hands-free infrastructure for Kubernetes and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Application-driven scaling and predictive algorithms enabling mission-critical workloads to run on Spot instances with high availability
Savings Plans and Reserved Instance optimization
Cloud-native cost reporting and analysis
How it works
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