The first step to saving on AWS? Find your underutilized EC2 instances
May 24, 2013
Identifying underutilized or unused EC2 instances is one of the quickest ways to shrink your AWS bill. By downsizing or turning off instances that have been forgotten or overlooked, you’ll ensure that your company isn’t paying any more for AWS than it should be.
Fortunately, it’s easy spot these wasted EC2 resources using the EC2 usage data provided by AWS along with reporting tools like Cloudability.
Here are three metrics to help you identify underused (or simply forgotten) instances:
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Video: AWS cost management using tags and Cloudability
May 21, 2013
Do you know where all of your company’s AWS costs are coming from?
With AWS tags and Cloudability, you can quickly split out your AWS spending by cost centers like department, product or client.
In this video, our Head of Product, Toban Zolman, shows you how to:
- Segment and manage your AWS spending using AWS tags.
- Track daily changes and trends in your AWS spending and usage.
- Identify opportunities to save money with Reserved Instances.
Watch the video then sign up for a free Cloudability trial and see how easy AWS cost management can be.
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Cloud Vendor Maturity – Or How Safe is my Stuff?
May 9, 2013
Blogger Profile: Ben Kepes is the founder of Diversity Limited and a Cloudability advisor
A few years ago the bookmarking site Ma.gnolia had the biggest disaster imaginable – their system crashed and all user data was permanently lost. Ma.gnolia as a service had got a fair bit of attention and use, it was one of a bunch of different services that were going down the Digg path and managed to leverage the general attention that social bookmarking sites were getting at that time to gain users. After the post-mortem related to the outage, it turns out that Ma.gnolia was pretty much a one-person operation that was running entirely on a couple of Mac OS X servers and four Mac minis. Duplication? Redundancy? Failover? not so much.
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Webinar: Managing your AWS spending using tags and Cloudability
May 6, 2013
Is your team still using giant spreadsheets to segment and report AWS spending for your finance and management teams?
See how Cloudability’s AWS Cost Analytics tool lets you create detailed AWS spending reports in just minutes using detailed billing data and tags from across all of your AWS accounts.
Sign up now for this free, 30-minute webinar and learn how to:
- Use AWS tags to tie AWS spending to your own internal cost centers.
- Track daily changes trends in your AWS spending and usage.
- Identify opportunities to save money with Reserved Instances.
After the lesson, stick around for an open Q&A where you can bring your own cloud management questions and issues.
Register today and see how easy it can be to manage your AWS spending.
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Cloud Washing and Vendor FUD – Confusing Customers into Ignorance
May 3, 2013
Blogger Profile: Ben Kepes is the founder of Diversity Limited and a Cloudability advisor
For those who don’t spend any real time in the enterprise IT world, FUD is something you might have (luckily) not been aware of. It stands, for those who didn’t know, for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt and is the awful trait of legacy vendors who, panicking about some technology that could disrupt their cozy little position, resort to scaring customers in an attempt to put off the inevitable. So how does FUD impact upon cloud adoption?
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