Cloud cost optimization is not just an operational concern or merely about “cost reduction”; it’s a value-driven strategic move. The path toward it will not be linear and requires tight collaboration among governance, architecture, operations, product management, finance, and application development to be successful.Read More

Checks your usage of RDS and provides recommendations on purchase of Reserved Instances to help reduce costs incurred from using RDS On-Demand.Read More

A significant part of using AWS involves balancing your Reserved Instance (RI) usage and your On-Demand instance usage. We provide recommendations on which RIs will help reduce costs incurred from using On-Demand instances. AWS generates these recommendations by analyzing your On-Demand usage for the past 30 days, and then categorizing the usage into eligible categories...Read More

Identify and remove any unused AWS WorkSpaces instances available within your AWS account. An AWS WorkSpaces instance is considered unused if has 0 known user connections registered within the past 30 days.Read More

Identify any Amazon RDS database instances that appear to be idle and delete them to help lower the cost of your monthly AWS bill. By default, an RDS instance is considered 'idle' when meets the following criteria (to declare the instance 'idle' both conditions must be true): The average number of database connections has been...Read More

Identify any pending Amazon Redshift Reserved Nodes (RNs) available within your account. A payment-pending Redshift RN purchase is a reservation purchase that can't be fully processed due to issues with the AWS account payment method, that maintains the "payment-pending" status long after the initial purchase attempt.Read More

Identify any failed Amazon Redshift Reserved Nodes (RNs) available within your account. A failed Redshift RN is an unsuccessful reservation that received the "payment-failed" status after the purchase payment processing failed.Read More

Checks your usage of RedShift and provides recommendations on purchase of Reserved Nodes to help reduce costs incurred from using RedShift On-Demand.Read More

Ensure that all your AWS Redshift Reserved Nodes (RN) have corresponding database nodes running within the same account or within any AWS accounts members of an AWS Organization (if there is one created). A corresponding database node is a running Redshift node that matches the reservation parameters such as Region and Node Type.Read More

Identify any failed Amazon Elasticsearch (ES) Reserved Instances available within your AWS account. A failed AWS ES RI is an unsuccessful reservation that receives the "payment-failed" status during the purchasing process.Read More