The U.S. federal government fiscal year ends on September 30. As government agencies prepare for the next fiscal year, they may find that they have surplus funds, including unspent IT budget allocations. Additionally, while finalizing next fiscal year’s budget, they’ll want to find ways to get more out of their technology investments.  How can they […]

Get Started on Your Annual Reserved Instance (RI) Review With only a few weeks left in the year, it’s important to take stock of what was (or wasn’t) accomplished and to plan for the year to come. For IT decision-makers, this analysis should include a critical review of cloud computing costs with the goal of […]

In the ongoing quest for your cloud business, Microsoft has responded to Amazon Web Services’ Reserved Instances with their own Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances. In both cases, customers can save a significant amount, typically more than 70%, by committing to a long term contract for use of computing instances. The VM Instances can be […]

In the dozen or so years that Amazon has offered Amazon Web Services, they have reduced prices more than sixty times, and changed their services catalog and billing schema hundreds, if not thousands, of times. And CloudCheckr has embraced those changes, enabling customers to save even more on their cloud spend and produce consistent and […]

Amazon Web Services announced yesterday that they had altered the application structure of Regional EC2 Reserved Instances to make them even easier for customers use. As the announcement stated: Effective March, all Regional Linux/UNIX RIs with shared tenancy now apply to all sizes of instances within an instance family and AWS region, even if you […]