AWS Cloud Financial Management
Tag: Savings Plans
Choosing the AWS pricing strategy that fits your business
AWS pricing strategies offer you the flexibility to choose the most effective way to manage your costs and still keep the performance and capacity you require. Learn about Savings Plans and Reserved Instances and how you can decide what is right for your business.
Launch: Savings Plans Expiration and Queued Alerts now available in AWS Cost Management
“The faintest ink is better than the best memory”, as the idiom goes. This is so true in my life. My credit scores and the longevity of my relationships rely heavily on these reminders for payments, anniversaries, and meetings. Our Cloud Financial Management solution team is constantly looking for ways to give you peace of […]
How to build a chargeback/showback model for Savings Plans using the CUR
This blog is contributed by Shankar Ramachandran, Solutions Architect, Optimization Enterprise customers who leverage consolidated billing on AWS often have the need to do internal cost allocation. This can be challenging, particularly when using pricing models such as Savings Plans. In this blog post, we will provide prescriptive guidance on how to build an equitable […]
Leveraging the CFM lever to move your business world
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world” – Archimedes. 451 Research’s recent whitepaper “Cloud Financial Management, Small Changes Can Make Big Impacts” (April 2020) highlights how organizations who are able to embrace the CFM lever correctly are able to accelerate both top […]
Launch: Savings Plans Recommendations for Member (Linked) Accounts
AWS now generates Savings Plans recommendations for member (linked) accounts, adding to existing support for organization level Savings Plans recommendations.
Launch: Compute Savings Plans now cover AWS Lambda Usage
We are excited to announce that AWS Compute Savings Plans now cover your Lambda usage! Customers have been excited about Savings Plans since their introduction in November. The reason is that Savings Plans provide additional flexibility, while retaining the savings potential that Reserved Instances are known for. With the inclusion of AWS Lambda to Compute […]
Getting Started with AWS Savings Plans
Some of you have reached out asking to learn more about purchasing and managing Savings Plans. The inimitable Jeff Barr already covered most of the need-to-know content in this post (which you should absolutely read right now if you haven’t), but here’s how the brave new world of Savings Plans fits into the AWS Cost […]