| | DECEMBER 201819CIOReviewAlmost all of us use AWS in one way or another these days. However, many of us signed up for the free trial, started using their services and never gave it another thought because we were saving so much money over the on-premises equivalent. You know what, that `set it and forget it' mentality is now costing you a lot of money and fueling the growing profits of AWS. So, what can you do to take advantage of savings from 30 percent to 90 percent off while using AWS? Yes, you read that right 30 percent to 90 percent off! No, you don't need to redesign everything, switch to another cloud service or even use another company such as a broker to get this lower pricing. You can, however, get this lower pricing with a simple change, and all you need to know is just one thing--your average usage over time. Yeah, I know this sounds pretty simple, but for some of us, understanding our usage patterns might take some homework. We will cover the most common situation, which is that you are already using AWS, and that as time goes on you have moved more of your workload to AWS, causing the overall cost to increase. You need to find a way to lower these costs and soon. The dramatic savings potential is realized through the different pricing options and features that AWS offers. The funny thing is that most of us haven't really looked into all of the different ways that AWS prices their commercial services, but we certainly know all about the Amazon consumer side and when prime day is. At a high level, AWS has four paid usage pricing options. These pricing options are On-Demand, Spot Instances, Reserved Instances, and Dedicated Hosts. These options come with billing per hour and per second. Most of us use the first pricing option, On-Demand, which is the easiest and most flexible to use. This OPTIMIZING THE AWS USAGEBy Michael Meyer, Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO), MRS BPO, LLCMichael Meyerdef2fc
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