In the first entry of our cloud case studies series, we reveal how CloudFix continuously finds and fixes AWS-recommended savings for the biggest name in hard drives.
Western Digital relies on cloud technology to accelerate growth; CloudFix helps reduce cost
AWS EFS tiering provides pricing up to 92% lower compared to EFS Standard. AWS EFS infrequent access (IA) has different pricing and lifecycle guidelines.
AWS CloudTrail pricing varies depending on the trails selected. A CloudTrail free tier where you can deliver one copy of your management events to Amazon S3.
Kingslake uses CloudFix to find and fix top AWS savings opportunies
Discover the five biggest misconceptions and myths around AWS cost optimization – and more importantly, how to avoid them.
— by Dan Hammel – For years, the CloudFix team has managed and maintained 120+ AWS hosted SaaS products across hundreds of AWS accounts. Although this model follows established AWS best practices, the team’s scope introduced operational challenges. Their team needed a way
Depending on the volume type, EBS charges you based on storage, IO and throughput provisioned. We observed some common run away costs across our deployments and in the industry.
You are probably overpaying for EBS storage.
Protect yourself from preventable costs and improve your security – Deep Dive
Protect yourself from preventable costs and improve your security.
Save up to 92% on EFS storage costs for infrequently accessed files by enabling Lifecycle Management for your file system. – Deep Dive
Save up to 92% on EFS storage costs for infrequently accessed files by enabling Lifecycle Management for your file system.
Thinking of taking on board an AWS consultant? Pause. Do you know what to consider before choosing a consultant? Do you know the type of consultant you need? Find out more in this post on how to choose an AWS consultant.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just run a program and save the company thousands of dollars per month in AWS cloud fees? A hero in the offing. StorageReview’s Brian Beeler attended re:Invent and met up with the fine folks of CloudFix, who have developed an excellent program that helps enterprises save on their AWS fees.
Learn why most organizations aren’t ready to use AWS consultants or simply aren’t using them correctly, and how you can leverage them to achieve meaningful results in AWS.
Cloud migration is the process of transferring legacy infrastructure to the cloud. Organizations today are increasingly moving their digital operations and on-premise data centers to public cloud architecture. For companies migrating to AWS, it’s not a “why” but a “how
Two pizzas, one team. We are talking about the 2-pizza teams at Amazon – small enough to be fed by two large pizzas (that’s right, Joey, you will have to share). These teams became the prototype of how Amazon continued
By Rahul Subramaniam — AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas was an exciting event. In addition to the sheer pleasure of gathering in person again with innovators across sectors, AWS made a series of announcements that further highlight its commitment to
They say first impressions last, and it’s already clear that CloudFix made quite the impression at AWS re:Invent 2021. Yes, every cloud-focused mind was in Las Vegas for AWS. The speakers. The insights. The upcoming innovations. But among the AWS
Organizations today are scared of making changes to their AWS setup. It entails ruffling feathers with the many stakeholders involved (put on your bureaucratic coat!) and trying to arrive at a decision. What they usually end up deciding is similar
Do you want to save money on your AWS bills? Of course you do, it’s a no-brainer. Let us tell you how we ended up saving $150K each week by optimizing our AWS environment. It all began with analyzing our
Learn why you’re overspending on AWS cloud services, the reasons cost savings are hard to realize, and how you can actually save money on your organization’s cloud expenses.
The future is in the cloud. If you thought quantum physics was difficult, wait for this month’s cloud bill. You are using a service, and let’s admit, it’s hair-pullingly hard to understand the bill generated. Managing costs when the Amazon
Public cloud providers have traditionally marketed themselves as a less expensive and less complex alternative to hosting workloads and datasets on-premises. While history has conclusively proven that there are some significant advantages to hosting certain workloads in the cloud, moving
I could not find anything wrong with CloudFix, nor could I think of anything that the software could improve upon. Brien Posey, TechGenix When TechGenix gives you a 5-star rating, it is hard not to celebrate. TechGenix published their review of CloudFix, our
TLDR read our blog entry here Why do Graviton2 Instances offer better price/performance ratios? The AWS Graviton2 (Alpine ALC12B00) is a 64-core 2.5GHz ARMv8.2 SoC built on the Neoverse N1 architecture designed by Amazon (Annapurna Labs) for Amazon’s own infrastructure,
Before you start The blog entry here explains why you should use VPC endpoints. In this part, we’ll dive deeper into the technical aspects. How does an EC2 instance access S3? Public instances can access S3 directly. Instances in private
Migrating your Aurora PostgreSQL or MySQL to Graviton2 instances gets you an immediate 10% cost savings and a 20% performance improvement. – Deep Dive
Before you start The blog entry here explains why you should upgrade your AWS OpenSearch instances to Graviton. In this part, we’ll dive deeper into the technical aspects. Go through all the checks before you start upgrading. Instance types You
You can reduce EC2 costs simply by re-typing your instances. Is it risky? Yes, it is. Check out this tech blog on how to achieve this cost fix safely. – Deep Dive
Do you want to reduce NAT Gateway Data Processing costs? Then you can check out S3 VPC endpoints. Check out this tech blog on how to achieve this cost fix.
Gain up to 57% better price/performance improvement by upgrading your ElastiCache instances to Graviton2.
Did you know that Graviton2 offers roughly 40% higher performance at a 10% lower cost? Depending on your use case, you can right-size your instances and cut costs almost by half.
Check out this tech blog on how to achieve this cost fix.
Migrating your Aurora PostgreSQL or MySQL to Graviton2 instances gets you an immediate 10% cost savings and a 20% performance improvement.
You can reduce EC2 costs simply by re-typing your instances. Is it risky? Yes, it is. Check out this tech blog on how to achieve this cost fix safely.
Learn why overspending on cloud storage is a common occurrence and how to identify cost optimization opportunities for your organization in our new eBook.
Since the launch of CloudFix cost optimization platform from DevGraph we have seen huge interest and adoption. Today, we are excited to announce that you can save even more with our new financial savings capabilities in addition to resource related
AWS application workloads requiring high-throughput IOPS and/or low-latency often leverage io1/io2 EBS volumes. Similar to the benefits realized from migrating general purpose EBS volumes, you can also upgrade provisioned volumes to gp3 and reduce your cloud spend in the majority
If you don’t already have someone in your organization focused on FinOps, it’s probably time to get started. AWS cost optimization can be an overwhelming topic. In this article, we cover a common use case where you can start taking
Talk to an AWS user, and they’ll tell you how wonderful it is to move to the cloud. Flexibility, convenience, saved time, and massive growth potential. Who doesn’t like that? Yet, more often than not, companies aren’t equipped to move
