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🚀 Exploring Cost-Effective Solutions for macOS Workloads! 💻

As AWS EC2 Mac instances incur significant costs, we explored an alternative: @macstadium.com . We delve into achieving up to 60% cost savings by leveraging a hybrid OS X environment with bare metal servers. qubops.io/blog/aws-cos...

AWS Cost Optimization - Amazon Macie | QubOps Enabiling Amazon Macie can be expensive. Here are some tips to manage the costs.

Is using Amazon Macie for compliance costing you more than it needs to?

Read our blog to find out if your costs can be optimized without sacrificing compliance requirements.

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#aws #finops #macie

Day 24 - Assign a FinOps Champion | QubOps Assigning someone the role of FinOps Champion can save you money

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 24: Assigning a FinOps Champion

Having someone responsible for FinOps in your organisation ensures cost is always being considered throughout the year.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 23 - CloudFront | QubOps Can putting CloudFront in front of your services save you money?

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 23: CloudFront

Taking advantage of CloudFront allows you to run some workloads for free and reduce the cost of others.

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 22 - Elasticache | QubOps Memory is expensive, make sure you are using Elasticache correctly.

AWS Cost Optimisastion Advent Day 22: Elasticache

Using memory for storage can work out very expensive if overused or not used correctly.

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 21 - Serverless | QubOps Do you even need a server?

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 21: Serverless

Do you even need a server?

#finops #devops #aws

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Day 20 - Spot Instances | QubOps For non-critical workloads spot instances can provide significant cost savings.

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 20: Spot Instances

Spot Instances are often overlooked due to some misconceptions on how to use them effectively.

#finops #aws #devops

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Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky – so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix…

Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate

Day 19 - Secrets | QubOps Make sure you are not overpaying to keep your secrets safe.

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 19: Secrets

Are your secrets secretly costing you more than you bargained for?

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 18 - Volume Upgrades | QubOps Upgrading from gp2 to gp3 has a cost and performance benefit.

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 18: Upgrading your volumes

Upgrading your EBS volumes from GP2 to GP3 can provide a cost saving and a performance boost.

#finops #devops #aws

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Day 17 - Cost Optimization Hub | QubOps The Cost Optimization Hub can provide a lot of quick wins and insights without needing to pay for any third party tools.

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 17: The Cost Optimization Hub

The Cost Optimization Hub can provide a lot of quick wins and insights without needing to pay for any third party tools.

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 16 - Switching off Staging and Test environments | QubOps Switching off idle resources like your Staging and Test environments when they aren't being used can be one of the most significant cost saving tools in your arsenal if done correctly.

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 16: Turn off Staging and Test Environments

Turning off idle resources like Staging or Test environments when not being used can lead to significant monthly savings.

#devops #finops #aws

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Day 15 - Reserved Instances | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 15: Reserved Instances

Following on from yesterday's post, today we are looking into Reserved Instances and if they are still relevant.

#devops #finops #aws

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Day 14 - Savings Plans | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 14: Savings Plans

Savings Plans are one of the simplest ways to start reducing your costs straight away on AWS with just a few clicks.

#devops #aws #finops

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Day 13 - Trusted Advisor | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 13: Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor can provide cost optimisation recommendations that make the Business support plan pay for itself.

#aws #devops #finops

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Day 12 - Budgets and Anomaly Detection | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Day 12: Budgets and Anomaly Detection

Save money by catching problems early using these free services.

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 11 - Compute Optimizer | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 11: Compute Optimizer

The AWS Compute Optimizer has come a long way since launch and does a great job at suggesting rightsizing opportunities.

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 10 - Auto Scaling | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Day 10: Auto-scaling

A deeper dive into some lesser known auto-scaling strategies for cost optimisation.

#devops #finops #aws

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Day 9 - ECR Cleanup | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 9: ECR Cleanup

The default behaviour of Elastic Container Repository (ECR) is to keep images for, you guessed it, forever. This is often not needed and money down the drain.

#aws #finops #devops

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AWS Cost Optimisation Day 8: Region Pricing

Did you know that pricing of AWS services can vary between 10%-40% by region?

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 7 - S3 Object Archiving | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 7: S3 Archiving (Glacier)

To wrap up the first week of our advent we cover archiving S3 objects. AWS put you on one of the most expensive storage tiers by default - can you benefit from archiving?

#aws #devops #finops #s3

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Day 6 - S3 Object Expiry | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 6: S3 Object Expiry

How many old unneeded S3 objects do you have hanging around and what is it costing you?

#aws #devops #finops #s3

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Day 5 - Rightsizing the Database | QubOps

Cost Optimisation Advent 2024 Day 5: Rightsizing the Database

A complex topic that deserves it's own series but here is a gentle introduction.

#aws #devops #rds #finops

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Day 4 - Cloudwatch Log Purging | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 4: Cloudwatch Storage

Cloudwatch costs can quickly spiral if not kept in check.

#aws #devops #finops

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Day 3 - Graviton | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Day 3: Graviton

Switching to Graviton instances on EC2 and/or RDS can result in significant savings and sometimes with the cherry on top of a performance boost.

#aws #finops #devops

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Day 2 - Snapshots and Volumes | QubOps

AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Day 2: Snapshots and detached volumes

When last did you check what is hanging around?
#aws #finops #devops

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Day 1 - Cost Explorer and Tags | QubOps

Start the new year with a handle on your AWS bill. Join us over the next few weeks for our AWS Cost Optimisation Advent '24. Each day we will post a new tip to help reduce your bill.

Day 1 The Fundamentals - Cost Explorer & Tags.
#aws #finops #DevOps

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