1. Most customers using Amazon Web Services are way over-provisioned. They have come from
a background where their applications are running on static hardware, because that’s The
Company Way, as Mr. Twimble would say.
The truth is, optimizing your resource usage should be a weekly exercise. If your applications
are properly redundant, there is no reason you can’t scale up and down your instances on de-
mand and save a great deal.
For instance, Amazon’s top end RDS (Relational Database Service) instance costs about
$6,500 a month running in redundant mode in Northern California. That gives you 244GB of
usable memory. If you are only using 2% of your CPU and you are doing 500 queries a minute,
you don’t need that. You can scale it back to a slightly less powerful machine, and even with-
out a reserved instance, save $5000 a month. Or you can hire ThoughtWave Technologies to
do this on a weekly basis, and the ongoing fee would be tied directly to the cost savings base-
lined from the start of engagement. If we can’t save you any money in a particular month, you
don’t have to pay us for that month.
Contact Jonathan Kalbfeld at +1 310 317 7933 for more information.
HOW TO SAVE MONEY IN THE CLOUD
WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
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