FinOps Services for Amazon Web Services
Optimising Your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Environment
Amazon Web Services gives organisations enormous flexibility, with hundreds of services, multiple pricing models and the ability to operate across regions and accounts.
That flexibility is powerful, but it can also make AWS costs difficult to control. As environments grow, cloud spend can become distributed across accounts, teams and services, making it harder to understand what’s driving the bill or where savings can be made.
DeeperThanBlue helps organisations bring AWS costs under control through practical AWS FinOps and cloud cost optimisation services.
Where can AWS costs be reduced?
AWS cost optimisation often starts with the fundamentals: understanding what’s running, who owns it and whether the resources being paid for are still required.
Common areas for optimisation include:
EC2 and RDS rightsizing
Instances are often sized for anticipated peak demand and never revisited. Reviewing actual utilisation can identify opportunities to reduce capacity while maintaining application performance.
Idle and orphaned resources
Unused EBS volumes, Elastic IP addresses, load balancers and snapshots can continue generating costs even when they’re no longer required.
Under-used commitments
Reserved Instances and Savings Plans can reduce the cost of predictable workloads, but coverage and utilisation need to be reviewed regularly as workloads change.
S3 storage costs
Data doesn’t necessarily need to remain on S3 Standard indefinitely. Lifecycle policies can move less frequently accessed data to more appropriate storage classes, including Infrequent Access and Glacier.
Data transfer costs
Cross-region and cross-AZ traffic can become a significant source of AWS spend, particularly in architectures that weren’t designed with data transfer costs in mind.
Multi-account cost visibility
AWS environments spanning multiple accounts and teams can make it difficult to establish a complete picture of cloud spend without consistent tagging, allocation and governance.
Our AWS FinOps services
AWS provides powerful native cost management capabilities, including Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, Trusted Advisor and Compute Optimizer. We help turn that information into a consistent process for managing and optimising your AWS environment.
Our AWS FinOps services can help you:
- Establish clear visibility of AWS spend across accounts, services and teams.
- Develop consistent tagging and cost allocation frameworks.
- Review EC2 and RDS workloads for rightsizing opportunities.
- Identify and remove idle and orphaned resources.
- Assess Reserved Instances and Savings Plans against actual usage.
- Identify suitable workloads for Spot Instances.
- Optimise S3 storage through lifecycle policies and appropriate storage classes.
- Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary data transfer costs.
- Establish multi-account governance, budgets and anomaly detection.
- Introduce a regular FinOps review process to keep optimisation opportunities visible.
AWS cost optimisation that keeps pace with your environment
AWS environments don’t stand still. New accounts are created, workloads move, usage changes and teams deploy new services.
A one-off optimisation exercise can identify immediate savings, but without ongoing ownership those savings can gradually disappear.
We start by establishing a clear baseline of your AWS spend, identifying waste and quick wins and developing a prioritised optimisation plan.
From there, we can provide ongoing AWS FinOps services to review costs, monitor consumption and identify further opportunities as your AWS environment evolves.
Bring accountability to AWS costs
The organisations that manage AWS costs effectively aren’t necessarily the ones that carry out the biggest one-off optimisation exercise. They’re the ones that make cloud cost part of everyday technology and business decisions.
DeeperThanBlue combines cloud expertise with practical FinOps experience to help you understand your AWS spend, optimise your environment and establish the processes needed to keep costs under control.
Talk to us about your AWS costs and we’ll start with a straightforward review of where your spend is going and what could realistically be optimised.
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