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We’re excited to announce that Cloudwiry has its Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II certification!

With S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, one can save up to 68% on storage costs, if the data is accessed once per quarter.

One of our customers has a spiky workload with an EC2 On-Demand equivalent workload averaging $4.36M

AWS recently launched support for Graviton2 in Lambda, with a promising boost in price to performance.

AWS recently launched support for Graviton2 in Lambda, with a promising boost in price to performance.

This article will help set the basis for understanding the TCO optimization problem in a multi-cloud environment.

The early 1900s witnessed a massive public shift from traditional horse-drawn carriages to the greatest invention of the 20th century.

Steps to modify instance types on Amazon RDS, Elasticsearch, and Elasticache to Graviton2.

With savings of up to 72% over pay-as-you-go rates, reservations on Azure can reduce compute bills by 50% and cloud bills by 15%.

One of our fully cloud-native startup customers recently saw a huge spike in their cloud costs – an increase of 70% over the last 8 weeks

F500 customer with over 400 legacy apps undertook modernization migration and needed to identify the lowest TCO option for each app with a detailed analysis.

For many years, ARM processors were considered a lower-end option. Now things have changed – mobile processors have been dominated by ARM.

It offers better performance and is cheaper. But, how do you upgrade?

This part will try to realize the important factors we need to understand to identify instances that would give the highest ROI on migration to Spot.

An essential resource comparing Saving Instruments/Features side-by-side. Compare, analyze and make an informed decisions

If the source database is a SQL Server, the usage of AWS Babelfish could be a game-changer from a cost-saving perspective.

84% of on-premise workloads are overprovisioned. Instead of becoming more efficient, companies are merely transferring their existing inefficiencies to a new location.

Spot instances are a great set of offering from AWS with prices up to 90% lower than On-Demand instances. Some questions that naturally pop up in our mind…

Once the organization cloud usage is matured, the information and the decision-making have to be distributed across all the owners.

For organizations, knowing the creation time of an instance is useful in Azure to keep track of the running time of Azure VM instances.

At re:Invent 2020, AWS has announced Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The purpose of this tool is to act as a layer on top of Aurora to run SQL Server applications.

What’s amazing about AWS Lambda is that it lets us run code without provisioning or managing servers, and we pay only for what we use.

In the AWS re:Invent 2020 keynote by Andy Jassy, a new volume type, GP3 has been introduced, offering a significant discount (up to 20%) and more flexibility than ever.

From our experience dealing with rightsizing for clients, it is a general feeling that clients are not comfortable using burstable series for workloads.

Taking help from an automated tool, that can monitor your cloud infrastructure to generate insightful recommendations might help you save time and money.

Enterprises often incur unnecessary expenditures on their cloud which can easily be controlled by regular optimization of resources…

AWS Fargate is an implementation of a Container Engine, and allows you to run your containers without provisioning or managing servers.

AWS Lambda is an implementation of Function as a Service, which allows you to run your code without provisioning or managing servers.

Teams need to be able to spin up the infrastructure they need to support speedy delivery. This can often lead to unexpected charges in a timely …

If you are in the airline industry, your needs for cost management are very different than if you are in the business of selling bananas. Cloud expense…

Adopting Habit #1 will yield the set of guardrails to kick off the financial management in Autopilot. You can get…

Doing Cost Savings in your infrastructure is similar to being on a diet. Typically, there are two ways to do it: 1. Use…

In times of uncertainty, how to effectively manage cash flow and OpEx is a top concern for all leaders. We save our…

The current pandemic is requiring every executive to make the transition to having to manage large teams to work remotely…

As anticipated by many, AWS recently announced support of the Saving Plans for lambda functions. We expect to see…

Starting March 11, RedShift supports Stop and Start operations. Till now, a RedShift cluster had to be on all the…

Cost Categories is a new feature AWS is introducing into the Billing module. It is an excellent tool to categorize costs that allows you…

Standard Reserved Instances are regarded as the #1 recommended quick fix for reducing your AWS EC2 bill. RI’s enable you to get….

AWS has just disrupted the market earlier this week with a powerful new Cloud Savings Contract (CSC) called, …

Okay, so you’re an accounting or finance person responsible keeping your cloud hosting costs under control…

Get more computing power without spending more, or at much lower additional cost.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY STANDARD RESERVED INSTANCES…

Cloudwiry has been reducing AWS costs for its customers for almost 5 years. This has provided us a unique vantage point on…

The AWS Standard Reserved Instance Marketplace offers some of the highest discounts on Standard Reserved Instances…

Okay, so you’re an accounting or finance person responsible keeping your cloud hosting costs under control…