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Introduction To AWS CloudFormation

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

Cloud Budget Alerts

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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.

AWS Cost Optimization with Reserved Instances

If you own a business and are leveraging cloud computing, your business is bound to grow but, so will your cloud computing bills. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a solution to the growing cloud computing bills; the concept of Reserved Instances (RIs). The whole concept of reserved instances can be explained as making a commitment to AWS to utilize specific instance type for a certain time period and as a result, you get good discounts on your cloud computing costs. A reserved instance can be described as reserving resource and capacity for a particular time and a particular region within a certain availability zone. When you commit to paying for all the hours for a specific time period say 3 years, purchasing a reserved the hourly rate is significantly lowered and also ensures that the capacity is reserved for you in that particular availability zone... read more