Comments on: Amazon pitches better-than-ever cloud deals

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:39:57 +0000

This is great if you are already on AWS, but if you are not then it’s a bit harder. I found this to compare AWS on-demand and AWS reserved instances: planforcloud.com

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:44:05 +0000

If you always have instances up, going to reserved instances can definitely help. When I looked at what my team was doing even a small RDS instance was XX per month on demand, but if I looked at that same instance on a per year basis, it was the same price a month of ondemand was. So yeah, you have GOT to watch this stuff and actively manage it. So Newvem is on the right track, but they just have to hope that Amazon does not just do the same thing and cut them out.

Also looking at which region you are hosted in. For example, just in AWS’ USA regions, hosting in California and Virginia both cost more than Oregon as I recall

By: Praveen Kumar M

Praveen Kumar M — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:26:22 +0000

One reason I see for this is Cloud Competition. And it should retain the present cloud customers not to loose them by attractive new cloud players.

And this sereis of amazon decisions will attract more customers to their Cloud.

We are one of the privileged customer of Amazon. We never dissatisfied with it. Still it is the one of the biggest cloud player in the world, as I see.

By: Wes Thompson

Wes Thompson — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:17:49 +0000

Amen. Scalability is definitely a factor also.

By: Wes Thompson

Wes Thompson — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:15:47 +0000

That is why Openstack exists and will take off. Service and Support is key to keeping companies thriving and growing. Paying less often costs more in the long run.

By: Benny Bauer

Benny Bauer — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:36:57 +0000

I think Newvem is on the right track, it helps us save even more in costs. Their insights into AWS’s reserved instances helped us to easily analyze where and how we can move from on-demand to reserved.

By: Todd Trimmer

Todd Trimmer — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:07:46 +0000

“That is fundamentally a commodity service so they all have to compete on price”

False. The UI for the cloud services are definitely NOT the same between competing cloud vendors. There are tons of ancillary services and features they can bundle with their cloud offerings as well. There are huge differences in quality and richness for all those things. Customer support is also a differentiator.

By: Aleksandar N.

Aleksandar N. — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:39:06 +0000

Never really looked into reserved instances that much in depth, it seems too complex. This tool really seems to simplify the process and tells exactly what to look at and possibly move to save costs

By: Piotr Banasik

Piotr Banasik — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:33:36 +0000

I’m loving where Newvem is going, they check expensive resources that pass under the radar… such as stopped instances, unattached elastic IP’s, and others.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:05:16 +0000

that’s what you do when your service isn’t very good and you keep going down..you lock people in