The AWS Cost Explorer, part of the AWS Cost Management Service is one of the best options if you want to manage your AWS costs and have precise awareness of the line items in your monthly bill. …

A reserved instance subscription means that for a pre-decided commitment period (from 1 to 3 years), your EC2 instances of the specified settings will receive a discounted pricing rate. The discounts can range from 27% to 72%, depending on the selected options. The need for better pricing models for longer-term…

In our blog post today, let’s discuss the AWS S3 major storage classes, the S3 updates released over the years, what these different storage classes are designed and optimized for, and how you can set up easy-to-configure S3 lifecycle policies to take advantage of S3 automation and get some serious…

The Amazon EBS (Amazon Elastic Block Store) is a scalable, easy-to-use block storage service. Paired with EC2, it is designed for high-performance and transaction-intensive workloads. It achieves this by providing volumes that are mounted as disks on EC2 instances for onward usage with frequently changing data. These volumes are flexible…

Cost optimization is key to creating a well-architected and efficient AWS environment. In fact, it is one of the critical pillars of the AWS Well-Architected review. Let’s talk about the AWS Instance Scheduler solution which manages Ec2 and Rds instances. AWS provides a lot of services for cost optimization e.g…

One of the underrated and under-utilised cost-saving options in the EC2 Compute class is the Spot Instances. On-Demand instances are the most expensive EC2 instance type on the AWS platform and while they are ideal for most environments you can benefit from more cost-effective options. Spot instances aren’t a specific…

Poorly configured and cost-unoptimized Cloud Accounts count for billions of dollars in waste. (This article lists Cloud waste to hit $19 billion by 2019). …

Each year AWS re: invent brings more and more services and upgrades, yet the basic rules of creating scalable, fault-tolerant architecture are still the same. AWS’s Pay as You Go model is a catchy hook to lure in people from expensive often paid upfront On-premise hardware machines, however, unless you…

One of the defining features which make creating infrastructure in the cloud is resilience. The ability to create fault-tolerant structures which can stand the test of geographic and technical disasters. But how do you test that the architecture that you have created is fault-tolerant? That is where Chaos Engineering comes…