While global cloud spending continues to rise, AWS and its fellow hyperscalers have been trying to keep customers happy by helping them control cost.
More compute for less money, a central tenet of cloud, has been harder to achieve than anticipated for many organizations. As enticing yet costly SaaS features multiply and post-migration usage creeps up, IT is left holding the bill.
AWS pledged to help stem cloud overspend last year, when economic sentiment soured, and has continued to prioritize workload optimization assistance.
