AWS has made Glacier even less expensive

March 16, 2021

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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/amazon-s3-glacier-announces-price-reduction-for-put-and-lifecycle-requests/

Price reduction alert: AWS Glacier Put and Lifecycle requests are now 40% less expensive across all regions.

Podcast and article on "Vantage: AWS Console Alternative with Ben Schaechter"

March 3, 2021

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https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/03/03/vantage-aws-console-alternative-with-ben-schaechter/

Ben Schaechter, co-founder of Vantage, discusses the challenges of managing the hundreds of AWS services and the associated costs.

AWS just reduced SC1 EBS volume price by 40%

November 9, 2020

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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/11/aws-announces-price-reduction-for-amazon-ebs-sc1-volumes/

AWS just reduced the price of their SC1 EBS volumes by 40%, "or an estimated $160 for each 16TB sc1 volume. "

Google announced lower prices for Cloud CDN

October 15, 2020

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/introducing-lower-simpler-pricing-for-cloud-cdn

Google Cloud has reduced their pricing for their Cloud CDN service including "reducing the price of cache fill (content fetched from your origin) charges across the board, by up to 80%"

Google offers best practice tips for efficiency and cost reduction

July 1, 2020

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/best-practices-for-operational-efficiency-and-cost-reduction

Google published a list of "11 best practices for operational efficiency and cost reduction with Google Cloud". While these are high-level, and the linked whitepaper goes into a little more detail, contact us today if you would like expert advise on implementing these practices for your environment/team.

New AWS inter-region data transfer price reduction

May 11, 2020

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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-inter-region-data-transfer-dtir-price-reduction/

Here's a brief update on a price reduction for AWS inter-region data, mostly affecting the southern hemisphere and middle east.

New AWS EC2 price reduction: Instance Saving Plans and Standard Reserved Instances

May 8, 2020

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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-price-reduction-for-ec2-instance-saving-plans-and-standard-reserved-instances/

AWS has another price reduction, this time for EC2 Savings Plans and RIs. Note that this does not cover existing RIs or Savings Plans.