Cloud Infrastructure Cost-Cutting Strategy

Learn how to achieve up to 60% reduction in cloud costs now. 

Today companies are taking drastic measures by abandoning their growth strategies to focus on reducing spend immediately. The COVID-19 virus is wreaking havoc throughout the global economy. Those of us entrusted to navigate these unprecedented times as C-level leaders are feeling the compounded effects of this economic fallout much more clearly. As C-level leaders of our companies, we must help recognize opportunities, pivot around obstacles, and gather resources needed to come out more resilient than ever. 

Recent experience over these last few weeks of the COVID-19 time-frame clearly identified five priority steps all companies need to take right now to win during this global crisis.  We derived these prescriptive measures from several proof points implemented for our customers, such as First Tech Federal Credit Union, HP, Katerra, Poshmark, Seagate, Synaptics, and UCT. All these steps are deeply rooted in automation, cost optimization, and the efficient use of resources. 

Here are the five things we will help you do now to reduce your AWS Cloud Costs drastically: 

1. Achieve zero EC2 cost: Use automation to right-size your EC2 instances and efficiently utilize your compute savings plans or reserved instances, resulting in a drop of monthly compute costs to zero. 
2. Save up to 60% on EBS costs: Automate the monthly EBS storage usage to reduce the operational costs per month drastically. 
3. Reduce monthly operations costs by 40%: Identify and migrate S3 storage to the appropriate storage class which will directly reduce monthly operation costs up to 40%. 
4. Reduce monthly infrastructure costs up to 50%:   Consolidate and retire redundant infrastructure by using automated tools to analyze infrastructure usage per server to optimize your monthly bill up to 30%.  
5. Cut database costs up to 50%:  Migrate out of expensive database licenses paid monthly to AWS managed database services like Amazon RDS MySQL or Postgres, which will cut the database costs up to 50%. 

To get started, sign-up for your complimentary consultation led by our Business Managers and AWS Certified Architects. Your session will identify the specifics for the next steps to rapidly achieve the cost reduction objective while keeping your IT operations at 100% efficacy.   Once we have mutually agreed on the next steps, we would engage with your IT team to help them with our automation to show results immediately.