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Commonly used metrics like utilization and coverage don’t always correlate with savings. Lower utilization and coverage could generate higher savings. Learn why tracking one simple metric will help you measure and maximize your savings performance.
Managing RIs with input metrics like utilization and coverage doesn’t tell the full story and can be misleading. Effective Savings Rate (ESR) is the ROI for savings instruments, and is the one output metric you can use to measure true savings performance.
Ten years ago today, on March 12, 2009, AWS’ Jeff Barr announced the launch of EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs). At the time, Jeff spoke about the business model innovation that would give EC2 customers a discounted price in exchange for a term commitment. Over the subsequent years, AWS has continued to innovate in the RI […]
Most organizations are stuck cyclically managing cloud costs. Cloud Cost Optimization 2.0 represents a shift forward in your approach to cloud financial management (FinOps). Away from reactive, manual cloud cost optimization tools to automated, intelligent platforms.