Navigating Reserved Instances in Public Cloud Providers.

We presented a webinar on how to navigate reserved instances in public cloud on March 15th. 

CloudGenera excels at providing vendor-agnostic analysis.  We are the best place to find relevant information on reserved instances from AWS, Azure and Google in one location. Many enterprises overestimate the impact of reserved instances for some services and underestimate how much they can save for other services. The market is flooded with savings opportunities that are hiding in plain site.  CloudGenera’s platform and data service are the best way to move quickly from information to clarity to insight.

We look at an example in the webinar around large compute instances where a company could save in excess of $200k for a single instance. Consider CloudGenera when you need to move beyond the cost calculators on many public provider websites.  We provide analytics that span SLA, Security, Technology and Costs to help you understand overall value. 

Here’s the least you need to know from the webinar: 

• Look at the webinar slides here
• Listen to the webinar recording
• Next webinar topic & time: VMC on AWS / April 19th @ 1pm EST
• Content Highlights (What we covered):

• CloudGenera’s platform has information on Reserved Instances (RI’s) from the three largest public cloud providers – AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• AWS offers the most flexibility in terms of pricing options for RI’s
• Azure allows you to cancel or exchange RI’s (across regions).
• GCP provides the best discounts with no upfront commitment.
• We demonstrated RI discounts across 4 areas in the webinar:  1) Storage 2) Normal Compute Resources 3) Large Compute Resources (32+ vcpus)  and 4) Databases

• Conclusion: RI’s can be a useful part of your cloud strategy. Read the fine print to understand the details.  All services are not discounted and the ones that are have wild differences in discount levels. The best discounts are realized for Large Compute Resources.