Rightsizing Infrastructure Can Cut Costs 36%
By Mark Schwartz
When an enterprise migrates into the cloud, it is empowered with many new ways to manage its costs.
One important benefit is increased agility, which in turn leads to leaner delivery processes with
corresponding savings. With agility comes the possibility for rapid feedback-and-adjustment cycles, from
which comes improved quality and a lower cost of rework. Managed services — anything from databases
and analytics to identity and access management, and on to logging and monitoring — can reduce
operational costs and result in a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). And the pay-as-you-go model for
higher-level services is likely to reduce costs for most enterprises. These savings come from using the
cloud environment in new ways, and have the greatest long-term impact on costs.
Nevertheless, it is the cost of infrastructure that many enterprises first focus on, and that often yields
the most easily measurable and visible savings. To maximize those savings, enterprises should make a
focused effort and take advantage of the tools AWS makes available to them. In the cloud, an enterprise
has a great deal of control over how it provisions and uses its infrastructure, and the choices it makes
can greatly affect its costs.
