Save big on cloud costs by watching the small stuff

Mat Ellis
Cloudy Portland
Published in
1 min readSep 19, 2013

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As an IT professional dealing with corporate budgets it’s easy to get wrapped up in the large numbers and consider any sum less than a thousand bucks a rounding error. However, saving money on the Cloud has an immediate and compound effect. A thousand a week here and a thousand a week there saved by checking on the details can certainly add up quickly

Back in 2009 I founded the company that spawned Cloudability. I had many different projects on the go, and when we decided to focus on Cloudability I left most of them running. Maintenance was cheap and the projects were still valuable in some way.

I always suspected that I could probably reduce my cloud costs a bit but I was too busy and never got around to it. After all these projects were only costing me $228/mo. How much could I really save?

Read my full post at the Cloudability blog

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Mat Ellis
Cloudy Portland

Investor. Advisor. Founder @Cloudability. Master of Tea. Cloud geek.