Lower TCO And Drive More Value Of Web Apps On AWS: How To?

Increasingly, businesses these days prefer deploying web apps on the AWS cloud over on-premises data center. By doing so, they can lower TCO, “Total Cost of Ownership,” of the web app. However, they can reduce the cost much much more with a versatile cloud management suite like Botmetric.

The Backdrop: Why AWS Cloud for Web Apps?

If you are a AWS user, you must already be aware that AWS reduced the cost considerably in 2014. It reduced its cost of compute, storage, and relational database by an average of 30%, 51%, and 28% respectively. As an AWS user, you must have also observed that it’s pay-per-use and elasticity model that has helped you save anywhere between 75% to 90% when compared to on-demand rates. Good news, right?

The bigger good news is that AWS’ universal footprint, automation competency, and economies of scale has enabled business across the globe to continue to save on a large scale. To this end, businesses are now able to invest that saved money somewhere else in their business.

If you’re not yet aware of how to calculate and estimate your web apps’ TCO on AWS cloud, then you can use the AWS TCO Calculator. This versatile calculator tool juxtaposes cost incurred for application deployment on the cloud, on-premise, and colocation environment. It then provides the cost estimation for each of them. This tool also provides comprehensive reports and insights into the various cost components involved.

In addition to the calculator tool, AWS — in the best interest of its customers — recommends the four pillars of cost optimization to get lower TCO. So, what are these key pillars? Read in our blog post here.