Cost Savings analysis cost = acquisition + operational cost

lower costs

  1. consumption based model: pay for what you use
  2. AWS pricing models
    • on demand
    • reserved (RI reserved instances)
    • spot
    • dedicated hosts (if needed for regulation)
  3. frequent price reductions: AWS lower prices automatically applied for customers
    1. excludes: reserved instances

Amazon Flywheel ./resources/aws-cloud-economics-acceditation-business-value-1..resources/unknown_filename.png scale: high volume, low margin -> price reductions

./resources/aws-cloud-economics-acceditation-business-value-1..resources/unknown_filename.1.png eg. AWS mobile device farm for testing mobile apps

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