Esten Rye, DevOps Manager at Platform9, discusses how Archera’s Cost Explorer and visualization tools helped his team uncover significant waste in their AWS spending. Faced with a high monthly cloud bill, Esten used Archera’s inventory and commitment sorting features to identify and eliminate ineffective reservations, leading to substantial savings. Watch to learn how detailed cost visibility can reveal hidden inefficiencies and help teams take control of their cloud budgets. A must-watch for cloud professionals focused on reducing waste and optimizing AWS costs.
“I needed to see where my waste was. We were hitting [significant] dollars a month on our AWS bill and it was basically, ‘we need to clamp this down and we need to figure out where the waste is. Why is this so expensive?’
One of the things that came to light as I was starting to dig through the [Archera] Cost Explorer and the visualizations, specifically the inventory of the commitments, I was able to sort those by effectiveness and find all of the ones that weren’t effective. And that was huge. I had a set of reservations that were basically wasting [a large amount] each month.”
— Esten Rye, DevOps Manager, Platform9
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