Optimization
OVERVIEW
Empower Your Spending Decisions
Reducing technology spend is a significant benefit of operating in the cloud. However, your AWS spend can become unstable or out of sync with your growth if you don’t have a cost-efficient infrastructure, continuous oversight, and transparent visibility into your environment.
Gain insight and control over your AWS usage, performance, and costs with Mission's combination of expert guidance, tooling, and proven methods. We’re an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner offering cloud cost optimization services with in-depth expertise in FinOps, cloud cost management, and modernization to hundreds of AWS customers.
Get the most out of your AWS investment.
BENEFITS
Turn your AWS environment into an agile, scalable platform that drives financial and operational efficiencies.
Access to FinOps Expertise
Your team of Cloud Analysts offers personalized and proactive FinOps support with actionable recommendations that drive informed decisions in managing your AWS performance and spend. Cloud Analysts will help you craft savings strategies with Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs).
Optimized AWS Consumption
Controlling your cloud expenses begins with optimizing your resources. Mission continuously monitors your AWS environment and helps you eliminate waste by identifying underutilized, idle, redundant, and misconfigured resources. We also help you reserve capacity for higher discounts and right-size your computing services to scale.
Simplified AWS Spend Management
Mission provides you with industry-leading cloud management with Mission Control, our proprietary platform for understanding your environment. You get simplified billing and custom reporting to give you greater visibility and a better understanding of your AWS usage and spend.
Continuously Optimized Cost
Cost optimization is more than lowering your AWS bill. It's also about aligning costs with business objectives. As your business grows, objectives change, and so must your cost-optimization strategies. Working with Mission gives you access to continuous monitoring, engagement, and consultation services that keep pace with your evolving cost-optimization needs.
Smarter Response to Change
Reacting quickly to changing market conditions is challenging, especially for large organizations. If done improperly, you can incur considerable costs and business disruption. We can help you predict, anticipate, plan and respond to changing situations in real time.
AWS Cost Optimization
Mission Cloud Financial Engineering
By working with Mission, you can also leverage Financial Engineering services to uncover even more savings off your AWS bill.
Instant Discount Program (IDP)
With Mission Cloud IDP, you can get guaranteed and immediate savings on your monthly AWS bill without a long-term commitment. IDP comes with both of our managed services for additional help with cost optimization and governance.
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Reserved Instance Operations (RIO)
Mission designs a custom strategy to purchase Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) on your behalf, so there is no contractual commitment, no upfront capital commitment, and no risk to you. Stop worrying about usage commitments and get back to building.
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AWS Cross-Service PPA
AWS’s Cross-Service Private Pricing Agreement offers enterprise companies a substantial, flat discount on AWS spend in exchange for a long-term commitment. Mission brings expert knowledge and proven experience in negotiating CSPPAs to help you accurately forecast growth and usage, optimize ahead of commitment to avoid unnecessary spend, and avoid over- or under-committing when designing your discount.
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Instant Discount Program
Instant Discount Program (IDP)
With Mission Cloud IDP, you can get guaranteed and immediate savings on your monthly AWS bill without a long-term commitment. IDP comes with both of our managed services for additional help with cost optimization and governance.
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Reserved Instance Operations
Reserved Instance Operations (RIO)
Mission designs a custom strategy to purchase Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) on your behalf, so there is no contractual commitment, no upfront capital commitment, and no risk to you. Stop worrying about usage commitments and get back to building.
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AWS Cross-Service PPA
AWS Cross-Service PPA
AWS’s Cross-Service Private Pricing Agreement offers enterprise companies a substantial, flat discount on AWS spend in exchange for a long-term commitment. Mission brings expert knowledge and proven experience in negotiating CSPPAs to help you accurately forecast growth and usage, optimize ahead of commitment to avoid unnecessary spend, and avoid over- or under-committing when designing your discount.
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FEATURES
Our Areas of Focus
Cloud Financial Management
Cloud Financial Management is essential for operating efficiently in the cloud. Mission helps you become a more cost-effective organization by providing the expertise, programs, resources, and processes to optimize your environment.
Reduce Heavy Lifting
AWS handles data center tasks like racking, stacking, and powering servers. Our cloud-managed services relieve the operational strain of managing and maintaining your software stack and applications so you can focus on your business instead of infrastructure.
Adopt a Consumption Model
Pay only for what you need and use, and scale as needed. For example, if development and testing environments are only used for several hours every day, we can help you reduce costs by automating lights-off policies for these resources.
Analyze and Attribute Expenditure
Mission makes it easier to identify and analyze the usage and cost of your workloads. Transparent attribution of IT costs to revenue streams and individual owners of various workloads help you measure ROI and enables workload owners to optimize and lower unnecessary costs.
MISSION CONTROL
The Cloud Services Platform That’s Purpose Built for AWS
Get the tools to unlock visibility into your cloud environment with Mission Control, paired with our CloudOps and Cloud Analyst teams to help you act on its insights and provide FinOps support.
Our Cloud Analysts report on your AWS usage and costs as well as opportunities to optimize. You get greater visibility into your cloud and control of costs, and we contextualize the suggestions from this reporting to your specific goals, situations and needs.
Mission’s RIO program is set it and forget it. And what's stood out on top of that is the partnership with our FinOps team. They are super responsive, consistently proactive in finding opportunities, and expert in helping us execute.
BRAD PAYNE
Sr. Manager Cloud Financial Operations
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AWS Cost Optimization Frequently Asked Questions
How can I measure my alignment to AWS best practices?
Mission Control helps you measure this by benchmarking your environment using 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, you can try Mission Cloud Score for free. Mission Cloud Score is powered by Mission Control and benchmarks your environment against the well-architected pillars.
How do I know if I have FinOps or InfraOps opportunities in my environment?
Two key indicators are 1) the growth of your overall costs and 2) 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. Issues like spiking costs or application instability have their roots in infrastructural decisions. We can show you where there may be waste, bottlenecks, or other opportunities to create a healthier and more performant environment.
How does the Instant Discount Program work?
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 at a discount and then pass along 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.
How does RIO differ from other similar programs?
Mission Cloud’s RIO (Reserved Instance Operations) 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. And 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 can do this while many other programs cannot. If you’d like to learn more about RIO, you can read more here.
What are the benefits of using an EDP over other discount programs?
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.
Is any of my AWS spend not eligible for an EDP discount?
Yes. The major exception is if you have negotiated a Private Pricing Agreement (PPA or CSPPA) 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.