One of the key benefits of migrating your IT infrastructure to the cloud is that it’s completely scalable and flexible.
But many organisations fail to realise that same flexibility will often cause your cloud costs to rise well over your allocated budget. And, when you receive your monthly cloud bills in arrears, this will happen without the approval, or the knowledge, of the person responsible for managing that budget.
Furthermore, if your cloud environment isn’t configured appropriately, you’ll probably be over-spending further. You may even be paying for expenses that aren’t necessary to your business at all.
You could try to use:
In addition to those options, there are some steps you could take yourself which could help ease your Amazon AWS pricing problems:
While these may help, you’ll have to invest even more time and money to pursue them. More importantly, though, they won’t solve the root problem.
Unless you’re able to constantly monitor and optimise your ever-changing cloud infrastructure, your monthly costs will inevitably be higher than you’ve budgeted for.
Seeing your AWS spend rise unexpectedly is a challenge you’ll continue to face, unless you can put automated cost optimisation tools in place to match the fluid nature of the cloud.
We’ve seen many organisations reach this realisation when its already too late, with costs already spiralling out of control. It’s crucial that you take proactive action to prevent this from harming your own business.