Cost & Security

Group Billing & Reserved Instances

If you join our Group Billing we can provide you access to CloudCheckr a Cloud cost optimization tool. We can then do billing optimizations on your behalf including purchasing Reserved Instances for EC2, RDS, and Redshift.

• Ingram Micro. Is an AWS Advanced Partner that provides discounts and benefits to AWS users directly from AWS.
• opsZero / Customer Accounts. Ingram Micro provides a payer account. This account exists only to connect your accounts for billing purposes.
• Customer Account. Your account that you will continue to own and operate. The only difference being that you will now pay opsZero your AWS bill instead of AWS directly.

Resource Optimization

Storage and Bandwidth Optimization

Storage and Bandwidth are likely the single largest cost centers on the Cloud. We optimize this by finding ways to cache the results or use Cloudflare to provide the frontend to reduce your costs.

• Cloudflare Proxy
• R2 Migration

CI/CD Optimization

If you have significant costs using Github Actions it may make sense to migrate to Self-Hosted Github Actions Runners. This allows you to have your CI/CD within your own AWS account and take advantage of Cloud Native architecture to reduce the costs of your builds.

• Performance. Increase performance by setting up the infrastructure built for your CI/CD workflow reducing build times.
• Cost. By running within your own Cloud environment you can make use of Spot Instances and other savings to reduce your Cloud build.

Kubernetes Optimization

Fine tuning limits and requests to pack more processes into your Kubernetes cluster allowing you to do more with less resources.

Resource Scheduling & Lifecycles

We setup scheduling to turn on and off instances if anything is running that doesn't need to be run all the time. Further, we setup lifecycles to autodelete old container images, and instance restarts and upgrades.

Security

We provide Continuous compliance audits using CloudCheckr if you join our Group Billing.