Cloud Cost Management

Unblended rates are the rates which are visible in the AWS billing console. Unblended rates are just a fancy term for normal rates. Unless you’re dealing with consolidated billing, are a linked account under a payer account, or manage multiple accounts for your organization... read more

It’s a known fact that moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS) can provide huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operations and improved innovation, but many mistakenly assume that migrating to the public cloud will lead to cost savings. In reality, cost saving is harder than you think as the organizations need to implement management, governance, and automation to combat easily rising cloud costs. Otherwise, you won’t even have the slightest idea until the bill actually hits you. Here are some commonly practiced strategies that can help you achieve AWS Cost Optimization... read more

If you have been dozing under a rock for last few years, Serverless Architecture is your next big step to take in the journey from physical hosting to deploying software or code on the cloud. Following a logical progression from monoliths to microservices, serverless architecture sees the big future through fine-grained, event-driven functions. For some might relate serverless with microservices-based applications but, it is a further breakdown of applications. For every action you make, there is a function focused on an even smaller scope of application logic than that of microservices. Serverless compute is a computational model where no dedicated servers or VMs needs to be up and running on your premises 24×7. It is the Cloud provider you choose, that takes care of everything; from VMs to the underlying infrastructure, orchestration, and automation required to support any type of applications and run a voluminous number of events... read more

If we are talking AWS and its cloud services today, we will probably be talking tomorrow as well……and the discussion never ends. Every time customers feel the need for a particular service or feature, AWS pulls the rabbit out of its hat. As their workloads, resources and infrastructure services keep on mounting, organizations need to scale their cloud environment just in time. Managing and organizing such a vast array of cloud resources then becomes the real challenge... read more

Within an enterprise, different workloads running in the cloud demand different cost allocation based on resources, regions, services used, etc. Since all workloads under AWS cannot be tagged, splitting them into multiple accounts, one account for each workload can help you define cost allocation and differentiate better. But wait! More is more of a problem. Controlling the cost and usage of AWS cloud infrastructure... read more

“The essentiality of cost management” itself becomes demystifying when it comes to leveraging the cloud. In an AWS-dominated cloud world where on-demand and pay-as-you-go pricing models sound reassuring, the newbies entering the Cloud make it obvious for themselves to spiral their cloud costs out of control. But wait! Enterprise IT initiatives are not the only ones that mess up their cloud cost management.... read more