Avoid overpaying and stay in control of your cloud costs. If you spend just three hours per quarter on the Kostner Cloud Cost Management Service, you will have more money and time for digitalization in your business.
Kostner Cloud Cost Management is essentially outsourcing your price optimization on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud while maintaining full control.
Quarterly, you will get savings recommendations ready to implement. You can discuss these and other cloud cost related topics with your experienced cloud cost architect in online workshops.
The entire process will only take you or your cloud team three hours every quarter.
The result?
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Our services start at 149€ / month for a starter service if you have limited spend and just want to not worry about overpaying – and not spend any time on cost management.
If you have advanced needs with standard price calculations, multiple workshops with different teams, and maybe even monthly services you can go for our enterprise service with custom pricing based on your specific needs.
Most of our customers start with a free assessment. In 45 minutes you will get a detailed review of what is the savings potential in your specific environment. You will meet your team, so you have a solid foundation to make your choice if it makes sense to work with us.
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There is a solution for everyone!
You want to focus on delivering business value, but you know that you need to manage cost. Our Cloud Cost Management service is designed to make your life a little easier:
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This is a great question – and we do have just a few points that you should pay attention to:
Note: There is so much to be said on why you – and all other companies – need cloud cost management. Visit our blog if you want to dive a bit deeper or get a list of benchmark prices for the main cloud services and:
There are a few other things to it, but this is the core of cloud cost management.
Since you are reading this, you surely have a good grasp of what cloud cost management is. However, we want to outline how we look at it, just to make sure we are on the same page.
In essence cloud cost management is about keeping your costs at the right level by managing this equation:
Cost = Price * Quantity
Price is about keeping your unit costs down, ie. getting the service you need as cheaply as possible. In cloud this is about applying reservations (which can save you 70%+), bring your own licenses (savings up to 90%+), shared resources (Savings at 60%+), and much more.
Quantity is making sure that you are not buying more than you need. This can be shutting down development or test servers when they are not being used, scaling up BI servers only during the nightly load, and closing down production servers when business no longer needs them. It can also mean archiving data from expensive storage to cheaper lower performing storage etc.
There are a few other things to it, but this is the core of cloud cost management.
Managing prices is at the same time very simple, very complex, and constantly changing.
Managing quantity is complex, but in a very different way. When you want to rightsize, downsize, or perform lifecycle management, you cannot do so without involving the business. Not sure with you, but most companies experience it to be time consuming and very difficult to get decision makers to shut down systems or servers, to say yes to lower performance, or any other service degradation.
If you sign up for Kostner Cloud Cost Management-as-a-Service this is what you will be getting:
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The spend overview section is aimed at providing you an understanding of:
This will help you understand where you are heading and where to focus your efforts.
This is your documentation for:
You can use this to be confident that you are buying at the right prices and stop discussing if it is too expensive, but rather how much you are using.
This is the meaty part. You get:
The savings recommendations are specified so they are ready to implement. We indicate if they require a service window, and all necessary parameters so you can implement the recommendations without further specification.
We include single- and multi-step savings, cover all service categories (compute, database, storage, traffic, license), and cover all optimization categories (reservations, shared services, right services, licensing, consumption models).
This is the section where you get input on your ability to manage quantity.
This is where you get the chance to discuss all the content above with our cloud cost architects.
You will have your own specific reasons and benefits, but you might get some inspiration from Torben Kjær, CIO of the year in 2017, whom we have worked with for several years on cloud cost management.
Torben has led a transition from a traditional on-prem environment to a hybrid cloud environment with significant presence in both Azure and AWS.
“As a CIO you really want to work with business to deliver value. The challenge is that delivering a cost optimized infrastructure is license to play. This is where Kostner helps us. We can now document financial prudence and my cloud team only needs to spend a few hours every quarter implementing the recommendations from Kostner. The best thing is that my cloud teams are looking forward to the quarterly sessions and the cloud cost management workshops with Kostner. Never was cost optimization easier or faster!”
One of the things Torben is too modest to mention is that he has been proactive in managing this cloud costs even early in the transition. With the inevitable cost surprises most companies encounter when they start using public cloud, he used the independent review of his cost efficiency to help move the discussion from “how much are we spending” to “are we spending on the right things” which keeps everybody focused on the target of leveraging these new platforms.
… and you are ready to focus on other and more important tasks.
STEP
01
MONDAY
Collect Data
We guide you through data collection in 15 minutes. No installation, no access, no sensitive data.
STEP
02
TUE – WED
Crunch Numbers
We crunch the numbers, identify all relevant savings, and specify the required actions. We do this with AI and experienced advisors.
STEP
03
THURSDAY
Online workshop
We guide you through the recommendations and other topics of your choice so you can move straight to implementation.
STEP
04
FRIDAY
Saving Money
You can watch your spend drop, celebrate with your team, and get ready for the weekend.
A frequent barrier in most projects like this is that you need to install some sort of software, sniffer, agent, or similar or you need to give a third party software access to your cloud account.
This is not the case here!
We rely solely on billing data. They already exist in your portal. They do not include sensitive data about employees, IP-adresses or similar. It is a detailed specification of your monthly bill.
Hence, there is no implementation. We will spend 15 minutes with you on an on-line meeting to download your detailed billing specification and we are ready to go!
With our service you will only need to spend three hours every quarter to ensure that you have optimized price. Furthermore, with the results from the analysis and online workshop you will be much more effective when working on reducing the quantity of services you consume.
Each quarter we will go through this cycle and immediately you will start seeing your costs go down.
Many consulting projects takes years to earn a positive business case because everything is built tailor made. And sometimes the recommendations are not even technically feasible.
The Kostner Cloud Cost Management-as-a-Service is built differently. We have carved out everything that is standard; getting data from the portal, gathering information of all services, prices and discount models, using AI to identify price optimizations etc.
This means that you are sharing a huge development cost with all our other customers.
Therefore, all our customers realize savings that pays for the Kostner service in weeks or a few months – and on top you get everything else.
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We understand that engaging someone for a critical task like this is important – and can be very time consuming.
What is really frustrating is that while time is passing by you are literally wasting money that will never come back.
This is why we have created a completely risk free approach: You can try us out with an unconditional money back guarantee. You don’t need to explain why you want you money back. Simply let us know within 60 days and we will refund you immediately.
This guarantee is particularly relevant because there is no technical implementation with our service. The first services is (almost) as efficient as the following, so you will be investing only three hours of your time trying us out.
This is far more time efficient than any desktop research, and vendor selection process – and for sure the best way to know if our services is something for you.
We offer three services:
Starter is for you with a limited spend. You might be starting your cloud journey and want to implement the right way of working from the start or you just do not want to worry about overpaying, and no one in your organisation should be spending their time on managing costs.
Professional is for you with a dedicated person or team to manage cloud costs. You or your team understand all the essentials – and therefore you also know that there is no chance you can cover all the details and know all the fine print. What you really need is to spend much less time on cloud cost management and get a chance to discuss the advanced concepts with an expert with detailed knowledge and experience from other companies. To make sure you stay in control of your costs and do not overpay.
Enterprise is for mature cloud cost teams with specific needs. You might need monthly services, multiple workshops on detailed topics, reporting on standard pricing or other advanced topics.
If you want to know more about our services and which one to choose, you can read more on our pricing page.
