Is the prospect of optimizing your AWS costs making you lose sleep at night? Having been sold on the huge benefits of switching from large capital investments to pay-for-what-you-use OPEX, you may be disappointed when your new

When Savings Plans debuted in late 2019, they instantly changed the incentives for using Reserved Instances in AWS cost optimisation strategies. Prior to Savings Plans, both Standard and Convertible RIs had been viable ways to reduce AWS

The ideal AWS cost optimization strategy is never set in stone, because new tools and opportunities for savings are always being added to the AWS ecosystem. Indeed, the December 2020 AWS re:Invent keynote featured several announcements with

Although lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced economic activity in many sectors — think the dramatic, immediate declines in airline bookings, hotel reservations and movie theater ticket purchases, for instance — they actually increased overall

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud spending levels remained remarkably resilient given the wider economic turmoil. Between the rapid shift to telecommuting, increased e-commerce activity and rising demand for digital services ranging from news to

Cloud spending has proven highly resilient to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.   According to tech market research firm Canalys, worldwide spend on AWS and other cloud providers in Q2 2020 actually rose 11% quarter-over-quarter,