10 Best Practices for Reducing Spend in AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) forever changed the world of IT when it entered the market in 2006 offering services for pennies on the dollar. While its prices have come down significantly over the years, many companies learned the hard way that moving to the public cloud didn’t always achieve the cost savings they expected.
In fact, organizations have frequently noticed public cloud bills two to three times higher than expectations. This doesn’t mean that moving to the public cloud is a mistake. The public cloud provides huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operation, and improved innovation but the reality of the cloud is that costs steadily rise over time, and without clear insight into what drives your spend, strategic cost reduction is impossible.
In this book, you will learn the 10 best practices for reducing spend in AWS, so you can start optimizing your cloud for spend and performance today.
12 Hidden Costs and Hurdles to Managing AWS Infrastructure
Cloud adoption is booming. Gartner estimates that spending on cloud services grew 6 percent in 2020 to a total market value of $257.9 billion. While there are several large public cloud players, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the largest, with 45 percent of the market share for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and more than 1 million active users.
But, even with an estimated 91 percent of organizations now using a public cloud, many lack the bandwidth, internal resources, and expertise to properly manage their infrastructure. Aspects like monitoring, proactive improvements, and cost optimization typically require substantial legwork that may occupy engineers and pull them away from core business initiatives.
Without the right resources and expertise, managing your own AWS infrastructure can lead to:
- Costly outages due to hard-to-use monitoring tools.
- Never achieving a proactive approach.
- Overpaying for cloud services.
In this Ebook, we will review 12 hidden costs and hurdles to managing AWS infrastructure on your own, and how working with a managed cloud service provider like Mission can help leverage AWS to accelerate your business.
Securing Every Step of Your SaaS Journey
The impact on IT and security teams has been significant, and it has also created new and unique opportunities for attackers. Security is an essential component in every step of your SaaS journey, from migration to transformation and modernization to optimization and efficiency. As businesses progress on their cloud transformation journey, cybersecurity is getting more attention and organizations are looking for solutions to help secure and protect their applications and data.
Fortunately, there’s an effective solution, cloud providers like Amazon offer a full range of services to manage data security in the Cloud. From infrastructure hardening to threat detection, AWS provides comprehensive services to maximize data security in cloud computing environments. Working with a managed cloud services provider, you can leverage the experience of a team of cloud experts for less than the cost of a full time employee.
In this Ebook, we’ll discuss how to integrate the proper security protocol into each step of your modernization journey and how Mission Cloud Secure can help you modernize your IT infrastructure without sacrificing security.
10 Best Practices for Reducing Spend in AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) forever changed the world of IT when it entered the market in 2006 offering services for pennies on the dollar. While its prices have come down significantly over the years, many companies learned the hard way that moving to the public cloud didn’t always achieve the cost savings they expected.
In fact, organizations have frequently noticed public cloud bills two to three times higher than expectations. This doesn’t mean that moving to the public cloud is a mistake. The public cloud provides huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operation, and improved innovation but the reality of the cloud is that costs steadily rise over time, and without clear insight into what drives your spend, strategic cost reduction is impossible.
In this book, you will learn the 10 best practices for reducing spend in AWS, so you can start optimizing your cloud for spend and performance today.
12 Hidden Costs and Hurdles to Managing AWS Infrastructure
Cloud adoption is booming. Gartner estimates that spending on cloud services grew 6 percent in 2020 to a total market value of $257.9 billion. While there are several large public cloud players, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the largest, with 45 percent of the market share for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and more than 1 million active users.
But, even with an estimated 91 percent of organizations now using a public cloud, many lack the bandwidth, internal resources, and expertise to properly manage their infrastructure. Aspects like monitoring, proactive improvements, and cost optimization typically require substantial legwork that may occupy engineers and pull them away from core business initiatives.
Without the right resources and expertise, managing your own AWS infrastructure can lead to:
- Costly outages due to hard-to-use monitoring tools.
- Never achieving a proactive approach.
- Overpaying for cloud services.
In this Ebook, we will review 12 hidden costs and hurdles to managing AWS infrastructure on your own, and how working with a managed cloud service provider like Mission can help leverage AWS to accelerate your business.
Developing Apps in Containers: 5 Topics to Discuss with Your Team
Learn 5 topics managers should discuss with their developers about using containers to build, deploy, and deliver applications.
Deliver innovative applications faster
Red Hat and IBM offer a managed application platform service that lets your organization focus on delivering business value.
Preparing Your Business for Global Growth: Streamlining Cross-Border Tax Compliance
As consumers have shifted toward digital engagement with brands and retailers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity to expand and reach customers globally has never been bigger. But as you build your strategy for international growth, one of the biggest challenges you will face is ensuring compliance with the many tax and regulatory requirements of the countries and regions where you will be doing business.
Depending upon your business model and plans for expansion, there are a variety of tax and compliance requirements that you will have to comply with – from Value Added Tax to trademark tax, import and export taxes, etc. And while Oracle applications offer some capabilities to help address these requirements, without the right strategy and tools, cross-border tax compliance can become very difficult and costly to manage.
In this webcast, learn about best practices and insights that organizations can use to streamline global tax determination and compliance, including:
- The current global tax and regulatory landscape and what you need to know to ensure cross-border tax compliance.
- How to extend the capabilities of your Oracle applications with Vertex tax solutions to reduce manual processes, streamline tax determination and reduce risk.
- Case studies, metrics, and shared learning from peers.
Developing Apps in Containers: 5 Topics to Discuss with Your Team
Learn 5 topics managers should discuss with their developers about using containers to build, deploy, and deliver applications.
Deliver innovative applications faster
Red Hat and IBM offer a managed application platform service that lets your organization focus on delivering business value.
How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud
An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).
This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.
How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud
An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).
This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.
How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud
An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).
This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.
How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud
An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).
This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.
Learning Paths: Creating Pathways to Success
Today, there is a greater need for self-directed, online learning and training than ever before. Thankfully, eLearning tools like learning management systems (LMS) are available to meet this need. Without direction, however, learners may become lost as they progress in their studies. Whether you’re teaching your customers how to use a new product or guiding an employee through compliance training, your eLearning offerings need a clear and sensible structure to guide them. See how to create Learning Pathways for Success.
