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 […]

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 […]

Amazon EKS price reduction and cost optimization On January 21, 2020, AWS announced a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), lowering the price by 50% — from $0.20 per hour to $0.10 per hour for each Amazon EKS cluster that you create and for the AWS resources you create to run your […]

With AWS cloud, teams can acquire cloud services with and without the participation of IT, leading to a dramatic increase in the volume, velocity, and complexity of IT service requests. As a result, new services are often created without any change management process. Without a change management process in place, organizations risk impact to the […]

When you set up an Amazon EC2 instance and attach an Amazon EBS volume to that instance, AWS will charge you for the instance and the Amazon EBS volume. And, if for any reason you have instances that are not actively churning business value, and you forget to stop the instances, you will continue to […]