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In order to answer investors' questions about AWS, GCP or Azure costs, technology executives must immediately develop the ability to translate their work into accounting terms. Finance executives must dig into deeply technical cloud computing data that is obtuse and hard to access.

We know this because we’ve been through these experiences ourselves.

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Optimizing AWS Costs Without Sacrificing Growth with Aimably

A Success Story from Air

With Aimably, we achieved a 24% reduction in AWS spending over the course of three months and elevated our gross margins by nearly 10% – all without writing any code. A guest post by Tyler Strand, co-founder and CTO of Air, Inc.

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Optimizing AWS Costs Without Sacrificing Growth with Aimably

A Success Story from Air

With Aimably, we reduced AWS spending by 24% over the course of three months and elevated our gross margins by nearly 10% – all without writing any code.

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Navigating S3 Intelligent-Tiering Pricing:

What You Need to Know

When setting up your account it’s easy to see why S3 Intelligent-Tiering pricing is such an attractive option. What's the problem?

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Estimating Future S3 Costs With a Pricing Calculator:

Being able to predict costs is a core principle behind budgeting. That’s why it’s so important to estimate future S3 costs.

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10 Practical Tips for Managing AWS S3 Costs

You know the pricing plans. You know that you’re paying too much. Yet, no matter what you do, actually managing AWS S3 costs is a nightmare.

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Unraveling the Mystery: Understanding Amazon S3 Pricing

7 pricing plans. Multiple tiers in most of those 7 plans. That is the nightmare of trying to understand Amazon S3 pricing.

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AWS Cost and Usage Report vs Cost Explorer:

Detail, Visibility, and the (Secret) Better Option!

You need to know your AWS costs inside and out to optimize your operations. You need to know the pros and cons of AWS Cost and Usage Report vs Cost Explorer.

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What AWS Pricing Calculator Is, and How to Use It

With no commitment required, AWS Pricing Calculator is one of the most powerful (and easy to use) native AWS tools for seeing what your setup would cost you.

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Cost Reduction for AWS:

The Complete Guide

Nobody wants to pay more than they have to. Why should that be any different for cost reduction in AWS?

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What They Are and How to Reduce Them

AWS costs can be a nightmare to understand, let alone optimize. This post will solve all of those problems, worries, and difficulties.

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What Is AWS Cloud Cost Management?

How to Deal With the Nightmare

Global spending on cloud computing topped out last year at $225 billion! So why is AWS cloud cost management so difficult and complicated?

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A photo of Aimably co-founders Mark Milbourne and Claire Milligan

Why We Built Aimably

We made the tool we wish we’d had.

Our founders faced firsthand the barriers that obtuse AWS data can create between business and engineering leaders. We want to replace those barriers with opportunities to collaborate and build healthier businesses.

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