🪄 "Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who never sought it" - Albus Dumbledore
Hello folks!
I hope your week was good. Mine was filled with some more research on the data migration service. Last time I used it was in 2021 and it has made decent progress since then. I ran a simple migration task on a 100GB table, and it took less than 15 minutes to migrate the data!
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AWS savings plan has always been one of the first instrument of choice when engineering teams start cutting their AWS bills. It is extremely easy to buy and gives instant savings.
But..there are many caveats to it. It is very easy to over commit, buy wrong savings plan or get stuck with an instance family you don’t really need. It is difficult to decide how much you should buy, what duration to commit (1 or 3 years), should you pay upfront and so on.
In this article, I discuss all of these issues in depth. Please read and hit reply to share what you think. If you really want to go deep into how AWS’ savings plan work and how you should buy them, go ahead and read my handbook on it. It is completely free.
📰 News of the Week
Amazon's Investment in Anthropic: Amazon announced an additional $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion. This deal positions AWS as Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner, focusing on using AWS's silicon for training and deploying AI models.
IBM and AWS’ $475 Million Potential Deal: IBM will get access to Nvidia GPUs from AWS for next 5 years via EC2 if the deal goes through. Says a lot about Nvidia and future of renting vs buying. 😇
Official AWS
👉 AWS Compute Optimiser now supports Rightsizing recommendations for Amazon Aurora and idle resource recommendations.
👉 AWS Billing and Cost Management announces Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer.
👉 Split cost allocation data for Amazon EKS now supports metrics from Cloudwatch Container Insights.
Joke of the Week
My balloon elephant wouldn't fit into the back of the car... so I popped the trunk!
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Keep reading and learning.
Shubham