Saturday, February 16, 2019

Graph Your RI Commitment Over Time (subtitle: HOW LONG AM I PAYING FOR THIS?!?!?)

In my last post I talked about distributing your committed RI spend over time. The goal being to avoid buying too many 1 year RIs (front loading your spend), and missing out on the savings of committing to 3 years, but not buying too many 3 year RIs (back loading your spend) and risking having a bill you have to foot if your organization has major changes.

Friday, February 1, 2019

Our RI Purchase Guidelines

I've talked about it a couple of times, but AWS's recommendation engine is free and borderline magic.

It's a part of AWS Cost Explorer and ingests your AWS usage data, and spits back reserved instance recommendations