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AWS Activate — A Program That Can Save You More Than $110.000,00

Introduction

AWS Activate is a program that helps start-ups and scale-ups to build their companies. There are two Program Tiers that a start-up can join. The AWS Activate Founders is a basic tier and it gives you $1.000,00 credits to use the AWS services + $350,00 for the AWS Developer Support plan. The other program tier is the AWS Activate Portfolio, this is an extensive tier that gives you $100.000,00 credits to use AWS services and $10.000,00 for the AWS Business Support plan.

At the time of this publication, the discount will cover all the costs for 165 AWS services and AWS Developer/Business Support. There are also the Exclusive Offers that include discounts for third-party software, such as Jira, Bitbucket, Slack, JFrog Artifactory, and others.

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Unexpected AWS Charges You Should Be Monitoring Closely

Cloud adoption has many benefits, the most notable of which being the wide range of options and price models available. Your cloud charge, on the other hand, can get confusing. If you don’t keep track of it and review it on a daily basis, the expenses can easily escalate out of control. Fast scalability, pay-as-you-go pricing, and a vast array of options and updates can make things very complicated. 

Every company should actively monitor its cloud costs, which can drive up the overall cloud bill. However, if you handle them properly, this can be avoided. Here are some AWS charges you should keep an eye on.

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Understanding AWS Costs

A successful approach to AWS cost optimization starts by gaining a thorough view of the existing costs, finding potential for cost optimization, and incorporating modifications. AWS and other providers of software have resources to help clients understand how they are spending.

In this article, I'll provide a comprehensive guide on how to understand your AWS costs and needs, as a part of my AWS cost optimization series.

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3 Ways To Improve AWS Cost Optimization

Introduction

This article is the second in our series on AWS cost optimization. In this series, we’ll introduce the challenges with AWS costs. We’ll also offer actionable recommendations on how to solve them and perform efficient AWS cost optimization.

Cloud cost optimization can help a company maximize its business value. A cost-efficient company has financial stability and success, and with that, great potential to accelerate its business growth. 

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7 Challenges With AWS Costs

This article is the first of my series on AWS cost optimization. In this series, I’ll introduce the challenges with AWS costs. I’ll also offer actionable recommendations on how to solve them and perform efficient AWS cost optimization.

Most businesses spend much more on processing and storage than they need. This is often the case with operating expenses for excess capacity to meet peak demand in their on-site data centers.

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How We Reduced AWS Bill from $2,000 to $200

Background

A while back I worked on one Batch processing application, let’s call it Project X.

The way Project X used to work is whenever the user schedules a new job, EC2 Spot (t2.2xlarge) would be requested and that EC2 Spot will process that particular job. Once a job is finished that Spot instance would terminate itself.