Should I Purchase AWS Through a Reseller?
There are multiple good reasons to purchase AWS through a reseller — and a couple big reasons why you shouldn’t.
Why Benchmarks Miss The Mark for AWS Spend
How much should I be spending on an AWS service? External benchmarks for AWS spending and usage aren’t as useful as you might think.
What’s the Difference Between an EDP and a PPA?
What’s the Difference Between an EDP and a PPA?
Tl;dr Nothing, they’re functionally the same thing.
Why Cloud Finance Is Broken and Ineffective
Cloud finance is more “cloud” than “finance.” This fundamental misunderstanding leads to very ineffective cloud finance efforts. Here’s how to fix them.
S3 Intelligent-Tiering: What It Takes To Actually Break Even
As Cloud Economists, we’re often asked when it makes sense for an object to be in Amazon S3’s Intelligent-Tiering (“S3-IT”) storage class. The answer, as is unfortunately often the case in the world of consulting, is “it depends”. There are two primary considerations before you jump into S3-IT: an object’s access pattern and its size. […]
How Storytelling Can Shape Your Cloud Cost Management Strategy
Storytelling can change the narrative of your cloud cost management strategy by opening up communication and sharing business context across your organization.
AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Aggregating and Assigning Cloud Costs
Understanding AWS spend is a big pain point for companies, but cloud cost allocation can help. In the second part of this series, we’re focusing on what to do with your cloud cost data once it’s generated.
Spending Money to Save Money with Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
AWS offers a lot of options to save money by committing to a certain level of spend that you can get without dealing with an Accounting Team. We break down how they work and what strategy works best for your spend.
AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Identifying Your Costs
Gaining better visibility into your cloud spend is one of the biggest pain points you will encounter with AWS.
The Secret Ingredient Duckbill Looks for in Employees
I hate writing job descriptions. I always feel like I’m going to inadvertently write a job description for a purple squirrel. I know who we are as a company; that part’s easy to write. But how much do I know about what we’re looking for in a candidate? Are we basing the job description off […]
AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Tagging Best Practices
Looking for AWS tags you can implement immediately? We’ve got you covered.
Protecting Our Clients: Incentive Alignment
We take our role in protecting our clients quite seriously, and that starts with aligning incentives.