Spot instances reduce the cost of compute services at a significant rate, yet they are only appropriate for certain workloads. Find out more in our blog post.
Ultimate Guide to General Purpose EC2 Instance Types
Read our blog to learn how to optimize your application performance and reduce cloud costs with the right General Purpose Instances types.
Ultimate Guide to Storage Optimized EC2 Instance Types
Develop and manage your cloud architecture with the right EC2 instances to optimize your storage intensive applications and reduce AWS costs.
Ultimate Guide to Memory Optimized EC2 Instance Types
Develop and manage your cloud architecture with the right EC2 instances to optimize your memory intensive applications and save costs.
5 Tips for Reducing Spend to Meet AWS Budget Targets
The essential requirements for AWS cost management are monitoring your AWS costs and usage, analyzing your usage patterns, and optimizing your cloud resources for maximum performance. You will need to proactively and continuously manage this process to stay within budget.
AWS Savings Plans vs. Reserved Instances
In November 2019 AWS introduced Savings Plans as a simpler and more flexible alternative to Reserved Instances, which provide significant discounts for volume purchases of instances.
AWS Savings Plans – Ultimate Guide (2020)
AWS Savings Plans provide discounts of up to 72% on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate and Lambda usage, compared to on-demand rates. You have to make a commitment to a specific amount of compute usage, measured in dollars per hour, for a 1 or 3 year term. Any usage beyond that commitment is charged at on-demand rates. In this article we …
The Ultimate Guide to AWS EC2 Instance Types (2020)
Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for Your Application Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances provide virtual computing capacity in the AWS cloud. The elasticity refers to the ability of users to scale their compute power up or down, on demand, to handle changes in requirements. AWS has a vast number of EC2 instance types designed for a multitude …
An In-depth Look at Amazon EC2 Pricing
Introduction to AWS Pricing to Help You Optimize Cloud Costs Amazon Web Services offers a dizzying range of products and services for computing, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment on its cloud platform. Understanding the costs of such a wide portfolio can be overwhelming for customers, especially because the pricing for all services is unique, and they change and evolve …