AWS Cost Optimization

Mission Control helps you to measure this by benchmarking your environment using a combination of a proprietary algorithm and several AWS tools, including AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Security Hub, and AWS Compute Optimizer. If you want to get a sense of your alignment prior to signing up for Cloud Foundation, you can try Mission Cloud Score for free from the AWS Marketplace. Mission Cloud Score is powered by Mission Control and benchmarks your environment against the well-architected pillars.

Two key indicators are the growth of your overall costs and your applications’ performance. If you find yourself running into scaling limitations for either of those, this is a strong indicator that you have opportunities to make your cloud environment more efficient and to re-architect with best practices in mind. Issues like spiraling or spiking costs or application instability have their roots in infrastructural decisions, and we can show you where there may be waste, bottlenecks, or other opportunities to create a more healthy and performant environment.

The Instant Discount Program works by incorporating your billing into our payer account. Because of the purchasing we do in aggregate on behalf of our customers, we can effectively buy from AWS in bulk for a discount and then redistribute that pricing advantage to our customers. So getting your discount is truly as simple as signing up. If you’d like to learn more about IDP, you can read more here.

Mission Cloud’s RIO program provides more transparency, more savings, and greater flexibility. Some programs will take a predatory cut of all savings they generate. Others will only purchase No-Upfront reservations to avoid capital commitment. Others will only purchase convertible RIs, to avoid AWS penalties. With our strategy, Mission incurs more risk by offering All-Upfront and Partial-Upfront reservations, but you get more savings. Because of the size of our program and the depth of our analysis, we are able to do this while many other programs cannot. If you’d like to learn more about RIO, you can read more here.

The simple answer is that discounts are deeper with an EDP than with any other pricing agreement you can get with AWS. But what you should also understand is that EDPs can be combined with other financial engineering to influence the pricing, like RIs and SPs for example, to create a large overall discount on your AWS usage costs. Understanding how the different components of an EDP can influence your overall cost is complex and custom to each individual buyer, which is why we recommend having a partner who knows the program to help you understand the agreement you’re entering into and to help you tailor it well to your specific usage and growth profile. If you’d like to learn more about AWS EDP, you can read more here.

Yes. The major exception is if you have negotiated a Private Pricing Agreement with AWS for a specific service, like for AWS CloudFront for example. For the duration of that agreement, that service will be excluded from the EDP discount. This doesn’t mean you should avoid PPAs—quite the opposite, they are often a great value if you are heavily using one particular service. But if you are also considering an EDP, understand that you’ll be excluding that spend from consideration.