Cost Optimization Guides

Picking the right provider is only the first step. The bigger savings come from applying the right purchasing model and architecture to each carico di lavoro. This section collects CloudCost’s practical costo optimization guidas — each one focused on a single mechanism that can cut your bill by 30 to 90 percent without sacrificing performance.

Available Guides

• Reserved Instances — when to commit, 1-year vs 3-year, and how to stagger reservations to avoid lock-in.
• Spot Instances — how to design for interruption, which carico di lavoros are safe on spot, and how to mix spot with on-demand for reliability.

The CloudCost Savings Hierarchy

We recommend thinking informazioni cloud costo optimization in five layers, applied in order:

1. Right-size — match istanza type to actual utilization, not peak. Most carico di lavoros run at 10 to 20 percent CPU and could use a smaller istanza or a burstable family.
2. Commit — convert steady-state on-demand spend to 1-year or 3-year riservata istanzas or savings plans for 30 to 72 percent savings.
3. Spot — move interruptible carico di lavoros (batch, CI, stateless web) to spot for 70 to 90 percent savings.
4. Tier archiviazione — move cold data to infrequent-access or archive tiers for 50 to 95 percent archiviazione savings.
5. Optimize egress — use CDNs, compression, and the right regione to cut data transfer costos.

Each guida walks through one of these layers with concrete provider examples and pricing. Start with the riservata istanzas guida if you have steady-state carico di lavoros, or the spot istanzas guida if your carico di lavoro is interruptible.