Cloud Cost Management

Since cloud computing is currently a vast and extremely dynamic zone of the IT world, it is not surprising to accept the fact that there is an entire well-developed market of products and services that offer cloud management platform (CMP) competences… read more

Growth in public cloud usage is increasing substantially as enterprises have bested the hurdles to adoption at the initial phase. However, the adoption process is continually assisted by a number of internal clumsy initiatives. A structured approach is seldom followed, and this being the reason why organizations normally end up with a gawky management methodology, which almost never satisfies the requirements and authenticated policies of an organization. The chief IT organization, which sometimes is unknown of their existence, is often bypassed by the IaaS and PaaS initiatives which, given the nature of the AWS cloud being self-serving, are mostly independent. The next step after AWS cloud adoption is AWS Cost Optimization . Technical professionals responsible for AWS Cost Management frequently acknowledge the loss of control over their IT resources pertaining to the AWS public cloud. Technical gurus often face a kind of management anxiousness, followed by the strong appetite t...

Managing your AWS resources is an important step to cloud cost management . Detach and discard unused, obsolete resources. Also, upgrade your first-generation instances to the current generation... read more

Your EBS snapshots are potential elements of AWS cost management . They remain on S3 and keep on racking up monthly charges if not monitored regularly. Snapshots that have no attached volumes to it are good contenders for deletion unless they are required for creating new EBS volumes in future... read more

With the breadth and depth of services AWS has to offer, it’s likely that you start off with a simple EC2 instance powering a website. CloudFormation enables you to create and manage your infrastructure and application stack in a controlled and predictable way… read more

Now, control your cost leaks in the cloud with Centilytics Alert Management where you can set custom alerts based on AWS resource tags, regions, services, and as many AWS accounts as desired. Explore more about automated alerts in the video.

In the cloud-dominated the world of AWS, a vast array of cloud services and pricing models are available to choose from. Though AWS lets you pick the services that best fit your IT landscape, organizations quickly end up with complex, tangled cloud bills; data transfer costs for instance, contributing up to 30% to the total cost. But, as they say, being pampered for choice and variety has its own downside, so is true for the Cloud... read more