In this series of blog posts, we’re doing a deep dive into AWS networking costs. In the previous post, we covered bandwidth costs related to Operation. In this post, I’ll cover Usage type, and how these charges appear on your AWS bill. And, I’ll provide tips on how the nOps cloud management platform can help […]

In this series of blog posts, we’ll do a deep dive into the costs of AWS services. In this specific post, I’ll cover data transfer costs related to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service, and how these charges appear on your AWS bill. There are many line items in the AWS Cost and […]

Since the launch of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)  at AWS re:Invent in 2017, AWS has continued to deliver innovative capabilities for this service. In particular, innovations that enable a variety of deployment patterns have made Amazon EKS the go-to Kubernetes service for application deployment and scalability. For example, in December 2019, […]

Particularly during this challenging time, many organizations are facing disruption to their operations, budgets, and revenue. Our customers ask us how they can optimize costs to avoid “bill shock” due to anomalous spikes in the cost of AWS services. To eliminate surprises in your AWS invoices, nOps cloud management provides machine learning-based detection of billing […]

Many of our customers ask for help in reducing the cost of their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. While Amazon EC2 offers a variety of instance types — from 0.5 GiB (t3a.nano, t3.nano, t2.nano) to 24 TiB memory (u-24tb1.metal) — it can be challenging to pick the right resource for the right workload. […]

How do you ensure that you’re not wasting spend on unused or underutilized resources? You need to rightsize your workloads to achieve cost optimization. But rightsizing is not a “one and done” process. It’s critical to decommission resources that you no longer need and stop resources that are temporarily not needed — and to do […]