AWS Cloud Cost Management_ Keeping Cloud Costs In Check!
AWS Cloud Cost Management: Keeping Cloud Costs In Check!

Reading Time: 5 minutes While cloud computing offers many advantages, it’s also easy to overspend if you’re not careful of cloud usage. Thus to overcome this challenge, AWS cloud cost management can be a bliss to help organizations understand and optimize their AWS spend. In this blog post, we’ll explore the topic of AWS cloud cost management and provide…

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3 ways for AWS partners to improve WAFR Remediation Proposals with nOps

Reading Time: 4 minutes How do you grow your AWS consulting business? One way is to use nOps for Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) and systematically build up a portfolio of repeatable work packages that helps you grow. If you follow the three practices in this article you will be creating better remediation plans and proposals: they will be faster…

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Understanding Networking Costs in AWS: Data Transfer Costs by Usage Type
Understanding Networking Costs in AWS: Data Transfer Costs by Usage Type

Reading Time: 5 minutes Understanding Networking Costs in AWS: Data Transfer Costs by Usage Type 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…

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Understanding AWS Data Transfer Costs: Basics and Importance!

Reading Time: 7 minutes Data transfer costs in AWS can often be overlooked amidst the many other line items on your cloud bill. But if left unchecked, these costs can accumulate and can be a major cause of high AWS bills. To effectively manage and potentially reduce these costs, it’s crucial to gain a deeper understanding of your data…

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How to optimize Amazon EC2 costs by implementing a single Amazon EKS Control Plane

Reading Time: 7 minutes 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,…

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Detecting AWS Cloud cost anomalies
Detecting AWS Cloud Cost Anomalies!

Reading Time: 6 minutes In the current challenging business environment, organizations are experiencing disruption in their operations, budget constraints, and decreased revenue. As a result, many customers are concerned about cloud cost optimization to avoid unexpected surges in their AWS service bills. As a solution, detecting AWS Cloud Cost Anomalies helps eliminate idle resources.  It refers to identifying unusual…

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How to Use Spot Instances to Reduce Amazon EC2 Costs by Up to 90% with nOps Spot Advisor

Reading Time: 4 minutes 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….

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How to Rightsize Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3 — Continuously

Reading Time: < 1 minutes 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…

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Save AWS Cloud Costs by Using Tags to Detect Unused Amazon EC2 Instances

Reading Time: 5 minutes We all have had this scenario: You have something that needs urgent testing, maybe a new build, perhaps a user data addition that you need to tweak before the next prod release. What do we do? We fire up an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance and begin testing. That’s the beauty of the…

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