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.
Learn how we drive our customers’ global compute discount to world class levels of 40+%, while also protecting their downside risk using a combination of Compute Savings Plans and Convertible Reserved Instances.
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.
Wondering if All or Partial RIs are worth it? We break down the concepts and math so you can have confidence in your purchasing decisions.
When it comes to AWS cost optimization, Convertible Reserved Instances wrapped with ProsperOps automation offer a potent combination of savings and EC2 flexibility.
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.
