Five strategies for optimizing your AWS pricing
For many companies, cloud services like AWS are the second largest budget item after salaries. There are two components to taking control of these costs: optimizing your business’ services usage and optimizing the rates you pay for each service. Managing the latter is the fastest, lowest-risk path to savings: Pricing optimization can be done completely at the contracts and billing layer, and doesn’t impact how your DevOps or Engineering teams use AWS' products.
Download this executive brief to understand five ways your team can take more control of the rates you pay AWS. You’ll learn:
- Cost-free ways to easily visualize all your purchasing options and shortcut the path to the best discounts
- How you can cover hard-to-discount usage types with savings and set your own commitment terms
- Tactics to qualify for credits, and how to model your long-term growth so you can negotiate private pricing
Continue reading this series
- Introduction: How to optimize your AWS pricing
- Chapter 1: Understand your AWS spend so you can identify savings opportunities
- Chapter 2: Maximize commitment-based discounts to save up to 70% on static AWS infrastructure
- Chapter 3: Use flexible-term Insured Commitments to save 30–50% on less-certain AWS infrastructure
- Chapter 4: Qualify for and secure additional AWS credits
- Chapter 5: Accelerate your attainment of AWS enterprise pricing
