A four step guide to triple your savings on AWS deployments.

Introduction The playground for cloud infrastructure providers is busy, as the most recent Gartner report shows, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), though being challenged by Microsoft Azure, still look like the unattainable leader. What makes Amazon appear a cure-all solution and how many of its services de facto bring tangible benefits to cloud neophytes? AWS comes with a stack of tempting benefits such as elastic capacity, scalability, speedy and agile delivery, focus on business and global reach. However, the CXO-level decision-makers will often be cautious, and with good reason, when it comes to migrating their apps to the cloud. Besides security concerns and prejudices surrounding the cloud infrastructure, there is another underlying reason: who wants to undergo the trouble of revamping their architecture with outcomes that are hard to calculate? ...

March 30, 2015 · 10 min · Vadzim Belski