webinar: aws partner strategies for success
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Use Consolidated Billing
• Create a master payer account• Link all your accounts from there
Advantages includes:
• A single view on all costs
• Reserved Instance usage • works across consolidated accounts
• Pricing tiers are compressed
• Overall reduced bill
Savings from Compressed Tiers
• Tiers are aggregated across payees
• Services
• S3
• CloudFront
• Data Transfer
• Route 53
• Support Costs
• Zocalo (renamed WorkDocs)
What are Reserved Instances?
Get started at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-instances/
• Upfront payment and Commitment to pay less overall
– Significant savings (up to 75%)
– Requires planning, predicting, accepting risk
– What if AWS drops prices?
• Factors for picking RIs
• Term – how long you want to commit for
• Region/Availability Zone – where will the resource run
• Operating System – what resource are you going to run
• Payment Options – how do you want to pay
We will try to understand these factors
Reserved Usage is more than EC2!
Don’t ignore other Reserved Usage opportunities
• RDS reserved usage very close to EC2• They continue to support Light, Medium, Heavy Utilization
• Databases are rarely used in Light or Medium
• ElastiCache reserved cache nodes• Current generation supports Heavy only
• Previous generation support Light, Medium, Heavy
• DynamoDB Reserved Capacity• Commiting to read and write units capacity
• Redshift Reserved Instances• 1 and 3 Year Heavy Utilization options, large upfront
• CloudFront reserved bandwidth• Very attractive discounts if you commit to minimum bandwidth usage
EC2 Reserved Instance types (Next Gen.)
• All Upfront• Same as Fixed Priced
• Full payment upfront, no hourly charges
• Partial Upfront• Similar to Heavy Utilization RIs
• Pay something upfront plus a monthly usage charge whether you use or not
• No Upfront• New idea, don’t pay anything upfront but commit to
hourly usage price for the full term
• Not available under 3-year terms
Looking at new RI types
• Linux, c3.2xlarge, in the Sydney Region
Recommendation Term Upfront Monthly Total Usage for Term Total Cost for Term Effective Hourly Rate Total Savings Annual Saving Commit
Medium 1 year 1,165.00 162.72 1,952.64 3,117.64 0.360837963 1,452.92 1,452.92 1,165.00
Partial Heavy 1 year 1,426.00 127.44 1,529.28 2,955.28 0.342046296 1,615.28 1,615.28 2,955.28
No Upfront 1 year 0.00 282.24 3,386.88 3,386.88 0.392 1,183.68 1,183.68 3,386.88
Full Upfront 1 year 2,916.00 0.00 0.00 2,916.00 0.3375 1,654.56 1,654.56 2,916.00
Medium 3 year 1,751.00 144.00 5,184.00 6,935.00 0.267554012 6,776.68 2258.893333 1,751.00
Partial Heavy 3 year 2,153.00 113.04 4,069.44 6,222.44 0.240063272 7,489.24 2496.413333 6,222.44
Full Upfront 3 year 5,902.00 0.00 0.00 5,902.00 0.227700617 7,809.68 2603.226667 5,902.00
OnDemand 1 year 0.00 380.88 4,570.56 4,570.56 0.529 N/A N/A 0
Picking Reserved Instances
• Finding safe RIs to purchase• Know your customers deployments
• 1 versus 3 years?
• Juggling your RIs (only for EC2)• Resizing instance types (sizes), moving AZs
• How much to invest• Is “No Upfront” right for you
• Selling on the Marketplace
Invoicing Clients
• A process to bill you customer• Repeatable, efficient, scalable, accurate
• Provide bill based on “as-if” costs• Costs for the payee stand alone
• Reverse out compressed tiers
• Reverse out RI volume discounts
• “List cost” or “list price”
Monitoring Budgets
• Keep track of your budget for the client
• Define budgets, share costs accurately
• Stay within the confines
• Notification earlier is better
• Predict the costs
• Amazon pricing calculator
Adding On Services
• Biggest opportunity being an MSP
• managing the AWS environment
• Tack on 5-30% service charge
• Managing security
• Monitoring best practices
• Provisioning and optimizing
• Admin for the OS, database, and HW
Helping you accomplish
https://app.cloudcheckr.com
Questions?
Questions on:
• Being a Manager Service Provider
• CloudCheckr
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Aaron Newman is the Founder of CloudCheckr (www.cloudcheckr.com)
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