AWS Cost Optimization
Optimize AWS Cloud Spend and Maintain Performance
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 our 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 and manage the spending of hundreds of current AWS customers
Get the Most Out of Your AWS Investment
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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).
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Optimized AWS Consumption
Controlling your cloud expenses begins with optimizing your resources. Mission Cloud continuously monitors your AWS environment and helps you eliminate waste by identifying underutilized, idle, redundant and mis-configured resources. We also help you reserve capacity for higher discounts and right-size your computing services to scale.
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Simplified AWS Spend Management
Mission Cloud provides you with the industry-leading cloud management tool, Vega Cloud, along 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.
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Continuously Optimized Cost
Cost optimization is more than lowering your AWS bill. It's also about aligning costs with business objectives. When objectives change as your business grows, so must your cost optimization strategies. Working with Mission Cloud gives you access to continuous monitoring, engagement and consultation services that keep pace with your changing cost optimization needs.
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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.
Our Areas of Focus
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Implement Cloud Financial Management
Cloud Financial Management is essential for operating efficiently in the cloud. Mission Cloud helps you become a more cost-effective organization by providing the expertise, programs, resources, and processes to financially manage your environment.
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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.
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Stop Spending Money on Undifferentiated 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.
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Analyze and Attribute Expenditure
Mission Cloud 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 a chance to optimize and lower unnecessary costs.
Mission Cloud Financial Engineering Programs
By working with Mission Cloud, you'll also be able to take advantage of these additional financial engineering programs that are proven to uncover even more savings off your AWS bill.
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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) Program
Mission Cloud 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 Enterprise Discount Program (EDP)
AWS’s EDP offers enterprise companies a substantial, flat discount on AWS spend in exchange for a long-term commitment. Mission Cloud brings expert knowledge and proven experience in negotiating EDPs 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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AWS Private Pricing Agreement (PPA)
Private Pricing Agreements offer discounts for businesses which are significant users of a single service, like Amazon CloudFont. Because of the highly individualized nature of Private Pricing Agreements, our team of AWS cloud and cost optimization experts will help you understand and optimize for the right plan for you and help you to get your PPA negotiated and executed.
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.
Using Vega Cloud, 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.
“Pre-engagement, I immediately liked the people I was introduced to at Mission. I also liked the demos of the tools I saw. Mission and its FinOps team of Cloud Analysts that we work with have been great, so I'm happy our AWS rep steered us in that direction. AWS has a high level of service to begin with, but our Mission relationship is gravy on top of that.”
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I measure my alignment to AWS best practices?
Mission Control helps you to measure this by benchmarking your environment using a combination of 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 prior to signing up for Cloud Foundation, you can try Mission Cloud Score for free from the AWS Marketplace. 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 InfrOps opportunities in my environment?
Two key indicators are the growth of your overall costs and 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 and to re-architect with best practices in mind. Issues like spiraling or spiking costs or application instability have their roots in infrastructural decisions, and we can show you where there may be waste, bottlenecks, or other opportunities to create a more healthy and 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 for a discount and then redistribute 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 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. 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 are able to 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. If you’d like to learn more about AWS EDP, you can read more here.
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 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.
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