Containers have become one of the key technologies associated with DevOps in the past few years. This is in a bid to improve on static environments, inconsistent deployments and cultural hurdles. Using containers in DevOps has helped teams realize agility and fast delivery of software.What are conta..

Since crude fuel is one of the main sources of power production, an increase in fuel prices would almost certainly result in an increase in the price of electricity. According to the UK House of Commons, energy costs rose by 54% in April 2022 and were projected to rise by an additional 80% in Octobe..

To understand the costs associated with the hundreds of AWS Services available, one must have visibility and an operational overview of the cost of running services. AWS Cost Explorer provides valuable tools and insights to see the cost of running infrastructure in AWS.With the data available with f..

As you can see there are some offerings from AWS (with unlimited capacity since AWS is the provider), and you can also see 3rd party offerings, these are users that have leveraged the option to sell reserved instance capacity previously purchased on the AWS marketplace. There is no difference in per..

The key to cost optimization with AWS S3 is understanding and utilizing the various S3 instance classes based on your use cases. Adding lifecycle policies that automatically move data from the most expensive storage to the cheapest will dramatically reduce your AWS Spending and begin the path to bei..

SummaryThe Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) when used with EC2 can power durable, secure, performant applications with unlimited scale. AWS provides six different EBS volumes provisioned with various benchmarks. Before selecting a volume, companies have to assess their needs to make a well-balanced ..

You can add multiple periods if you have a set of start/stop times. Since there are working components to the solution, there is a cost associated with the solution. You can find the complete breakdown of the cost here. However, given the savings you can generate this solution will pay for itself an..

AWS Spot instances are an underrated computing option that has traditionally had a bad reputation based on fault tolerance requirements. However, with the rise of fault-tolerant systems and the need for cheap, repeatable compute requirements for Big Data, Batch processing, and CI/CD processing, Spot..

Historically, AWS has only had Reserved instances to provide long-term cost savings. However, Reserved instances provided the highest possible discounts as the cost of complexity, rigidness of choice, and required dedicated research into future computing needs and feasibility studies.AWS Saving plan..

AWS Compute Optimizer Provides details on exactly which infrastructure is overprovisioned in the EC2 instance (Compute, Storage, network requirements, etc.) and provides you with recommendations regarding the new target instance type.You can get a complete picture of the risk of migration (what sort..