Do you have AWS Zombies lurking in your environment? If you are an AWS customer, probably you do.
AWS Zombies are likely roaming your cloud instances gaining power, destroying all they touch, and if you don’t kill them off soon, they may take over your bills altogether.
What are AWS Zombies?
AWS Zombies are described as unused (and often hidden) assets that keep contributing to the ongoing costs of your AWS Cloud without producing any value.
What are the four most common types of AWS Zombies?
1: Unattached EBS Volumes
Clients should seek out and kill AWS Zombies like unattached EBS Volumes:
2: Obsolete S3 Snapshots
Clients should seek out and kill AWS Zombies like Obsolete Snapshots:
3: Unattached Elastic IP Addresses
Clients should seek out and kill AWS Zombies like Unattached Elastic IP Addresses:
4: Unused Elastic Load Balancers
Clients should seek out and kill AWS Zombies like Unused Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs):
These are just four common AWS Zombies and we have included only a small handful of our over 300 proven industry best practices for cost optimization of AWS. Before our clients engage us, we have assessed their spend and determined they are paying about 40% more on average than they should on AWS.
The opportunity for Cloud Cost Optimization (CCO) is significant.
Stay tuned for future developments in this area and for additional blog posts on this topic.
To help you avoid the next Zombie Apocalypse, NET(net) offers Managed Services for CCO, designed to help Clients cost-optimize cloud deployments and has specialist expertise with Amazon AWS, Google GCE, and Microsoft Azure among other cloud providers.
CCO engagements typically generate a 500% ROI.
Contact your NET(net) Client Services Executive to see how we can work with you on the front lines in the war against the AWS Zombies or help you save some money on your cloud solutions.
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