Cost Optimization Guides

Picking the right dostawca is only the first step. The bigger savings come from applying the right purchasing model and architecture to each obciazenie. This section collects CloudCost’s practical koszt optimization przewodniks — 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 obciazenies are safe on spot, and how to mix spot with on-demand for reliability.

The CloudCost Savings Hierarchy

We recommend thinking o cloud koszt optimization in five layers, applied in order:

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

Each przewodnik walks through one of these layers with concrete dostawca examples and pricing. Start with the zarezerwowana instancjas przewodnik if you have steady-state obciazenies, or the spot instancjas przewodnik if your obciazenie is interruptible.