AWS Savings Plans: Thoughts from the Enterprise
AWS Savings Plans were launched just over a month ago now. They are essentially being pitched as “Reservations, but easier”. In both cases, pre-pay for your compute capacity and unlock discounts for doing so. Here, I present my thoughts on this, coming from an Enterprise AWS background.
What Enterprise background is that exactly? I work for StepStone. AWS is our cloud provider of choice. We have approaching 100 accounts and an expenditure level within AWS that you would expect given our €3,000+ million revenues (2018).