With Intelligent Showback, companies can finally control how cloud costs and savings are allocated. This enables a more reasonable and sustainable showback of costs—a mature, centralized FinOps capability—and puts companies on the path to determining accurate unit costs.
Are you using Reserved Instances or Savings Plans to save money on AWS? How much are you saving? Turns out, how your AWS bill reports “Savings Plans” may be misleading. In this post, we’ll help you understand what’s wrong and how to correctly calculate your savings from your AWS bill.
In this post, we make the argument that for most people, EC2 Instance Savings Plans are inferior to their direct predecessor, the Standard RI. As such, unless you have one specific use case we discuss, we recommend you avoid using EC2 Instance Savings Plans altogether.
In this post, we explore two examples that illustrate why you should always purchase Savings Plans in an empty AWS account with no resource usage.
Since introducing the Effective Savings Rate (ESR) concept in early 2019 we’ve evaluated a large number of AWS customers to better understand how well businesses optimize their cloud spend with financial tools like Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. For the first time, we’re sharing that data.
We’ve joined the newly formed FinOps Foundation as a founding member. In addition, we’re now a FinOps Certified Platform, which is a tier of vetted technology providers who offer software solutions to successfully adopt Cloud Financial Management practices.
AWS recently launched a new feature called Savings Plans. As a company specializing in cloud economics and committed to helping you save money, here’s our initial take and what you need to know.
AWS cost optimization is a journey. There is no silver bullet, but there is a ‘no regrets’ choice that can accelerate your progress.
ProsperOps now supports Google as an identity provider. Rather than maintain a separate ProsperOps user and password, businesses who use Google for their corporate identities can now use those credentials when logging in to the ProsperOps Console.
Are you familiar with robo-advisors in personal investing? ProsperOps is the robo-advisor for cloud. Learn about the similarities and how you can harness the power of our solution.
FinOps teams need objective, real-time, dynamic insights into cloud spending, paired with fully automated rate optimization. The combination of CloudZero and ProsperOps gives you the tools you need to make cost efficiency an integral part of your cloud practice.
