A cloud cost savings spectacular
summary
A migration starts with 168 idle instances (picked as M4s) and a surprise bill; the session shows concrete fixes: use Compute Optimizer (now a 32‑day lookback) to get instance right‑sizing recommendations, move managed services to Graviton for roughly 20% lower cost and ~20% better performance, and run a continuous scanner like CloudFix (free assessment in under five minutes) that pulls Compute Optimizer findings, pushes changes through AWS Change Manager, and caseloads (demo saved $73; Trusted Advisor flagged 127 issues).
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:30Meet the team
- 2:23Migrating servers
- 4:12Lift and shift
- 7:05The bill
- 9:04AWS Pricing Calculator
- 10:33API Call
- 14:27Compute Optimizer
- 19:53One month later
- 26:28Demo
- 33:43Getting started
- 35:16Recap
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