Cloud Cost Optimization

SCHED’S ON SET: The Benefits Of Scheduled Instances To Generate Savings

Episode Summary

IT’S TIME TO SAVE UP ON CLOUD COSTS. HOW? BY CUTTING OFF SOME TIME. Nick and Jason talk about savings in today’s episode. The duo introduces a no-cost, no-commitment, simple yet effective way to save by implementing scheduled instances. Nick and Jason explain and give us context on what schedule instances are and cite examples of how it applies to your cost. Learn more about this in the latest episode of Cloud Cost Optimization. WORDS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR DAY NICK: THE SAVINGS YOU GET WITH SCHEDULED INSTANCES “Just take this simple example of 10 hours a day, five days a week, so I got about 50 hours where there's an activity against that environment that's under 30% utilization. For the given weeks, I've got 70% of the time, I've got resources that are running that are costing me money, compute resources that are costing me money that I don't need to have running. So we're talking about immediately, sort of just round numbers 70% savings without any commitment, and the best savings vehicle I can get from a commitment-based strategy.” Get to know our hosts in the links below: Nick Lumsden | Jason Yaeger Get a free assessment and optimize your environment in TenacityCloud.com

Episode Notes

IT’S TIME TO SAVE UP ON CLOUD COSTS. 

HOW? BY CUTTING OFF SOME TIME.

Nick and Jason talk about savings in today’s episode. The duo introduces a no-cost, no-commitment, simple yet effective way to save by implementing scheduled instances. Nick and Jason explain and give us context on what schedule instances are and cite examples of how it applies to your cost. Learn more about this in the latest episode of Cloud Cost Optimization.

 

WORDS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR DAY

NICK: THE SAVINGS YOU GET WITH SCHEDULED INSTANCES

“Just take this simple example of 10 hours a day, five days a week, so I got about 50 hours where there's an activity against that environment that's under 30% utilization. For the given weeks, I've got 70% of the time, I've got resources that are running that are costing me money, compute resources that are costing me money that I don't need to have running. So we're talking about immediately, sort of just round numbers 70% savings without any commitment, and the best savings vehicle I can get from a commitment-based strategy.”

 

Get to know our hosts in the links below:

 

Get a free assessment and optimize your environment in TenacityCloud.com