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Which is the AWS Best Container Service for Your Workloads?
Reading Time: 3 minutes DevOps teams deliver products securely and quickly. Teams have had to adopt revolutionary development strategies such as containerization to see faster deployments. Thanks to a revolutionary containerization technology, organizations can easily manage and scale application development. AWS (Amazon Web Services) containers are a more reliable, faster, and easier way to package your application code when…
How to Use AWS Reserved Instances to Save Money
Reading Time: 3 minutes AWS has two main pricing models: On-Demand billing and Reserved billing. Unlike On-Demand, AWS Reserved Instances let you spare cloud resources for future use. But you can only reserve instances within one availability zone. There’s usually a discount for Reserved Instance pricing in exchange for long-term commitments. These commitments can last anywhere from one to…
Why Right-Sizing AWS Instances Is An Effective Cost Optimization Strategy
Reading Time: 2 minutes When choosing cloud resources, it’s a best practice to estimate the resources you need. Right-sizing helps AWS deploy the correct capacity of instances at a customer-friendly cost. Right-size when starting with the cloud. People who choose Reserved Instances have to estimate resources they’ll need and commit to paying a given amount for those resources. If…
How to Use nOps to Rightsize Memory-Intensive AWS Resources
Reading Time: 2 minutes To achieve cost optimization, rightsizing becomes an ongoing process. Even if you rightsize workloads initially, changing performance and capacity requirements can result in underused or idle resources that drive unnecessary AWS costs. Most organizations continuously rightsize their AWS resources to align with business needs and anticipated demand. Since there is no historical data for a…
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…