5. How do customers lower their TCO with AWS?
1
Source: IDC Whitepaper, sponsored
by Amazon, “The Business Value of
Amazon Web Services Accelerates
Over Time.” December 2013
“Average of 400
servers replaced per
customer”
Replace up-front
capital expense with
lower “pay for what
you use” variable cost
model
3
59 Price
Reductions
since 2006
Economies of scale
allow AWS to
continually lower costs
2
Pricing model choice to
support variable & stable
workloads
On-Demand
Reserved
Spot
Dedicated
6. Lowering TCO through cloud optimization
Lift and Shift Optimized for the Cloud Designed for the cloud
Micro-services & Serverless
Managed ServicesInfrastructure Services
TCO : up to 30%* TCO : up to 58%* TCO : up to 75%*
*https://aws.amazon.com/economics/learn-more/
Ex:
Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS,
Amazon EFS, Amazon VPC,
VM Import/export…
Ex:
Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora,
Amazon Elasticache,
Amazon Redshift,
Amazon OpsWorks,
Amazon ElasticSearch,
Amazon EMR
Ex:
Amazon S3, Amazon SQS,
AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis,
Amazon DynamoDB,
Amazon Cognito,
AWS DMS, AWS WAF,
AWS IOT
19. Consider Spot for Elastic Workloads
Options
• Spot Fleet to maintain instance
availability
• Spot Block durations (1-6 hours)
for workloads that must run
continuously
Commitment level
• None
* Compared to On Demand price based on specific EC2 instance type, region, and Availability Zone
58. AWS Trusted Advisor
Helping customers automate best practices (checks) across
cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, and performance
improvement
Red (action recommended)
Orange (investigation recommended)
Green (no problem detected)