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Do your bills match your needs, not your usage?
Save money on your SQL database or Windows workloads when migrating to the cloud.
Start with a free analysis of the costs you can save.
Save money on your SQL database or Windows workloads when migrating to the cloud. Start with a free analysis of the costs you can save.
Reduce costs by at least 20%
Using the AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA), Silicon Overdrive will evaluate your current cost versus usage and build your migration and cloud licensing strategy accordingly.
Rightsize your resources
Reduce costs
Only pay for what you need
Why run a cost analysis on your servers?
Cost optimisation has been ranked as the top cloud initiative for businesses for half a decade*. Despite this, many companies don’t have the right resources or enough time to do a proper analysis of their situation.
After a completed OLA assessment, you can make data-driven decisions with support from our highly certified AWS consultants. They know what to look for and can make an objective recommendation based on their findings.
Results of an OLA for a customer:
Initial situation:
- 21% of the servers did not show any usage at all
- More than half of the servers were used less than 50% of the time
- 92% of machines in use had an average CPU utilization of 18%
- In contrast to that, 78% of the machines had a RAM utilization of > 93%
Results:
- 30% saving potential compared to on-premises environment
- Leveraging consumption-based options in the cloud resulted in further cost reductions
- Storage capacity costs were lower in AWS compared to Azure
Utilise the servers you are paying for.
Silicon Overdrive can help you find the most cost-effective Microsoft licensing strategy to support your planned AWS migration. This guide explains our services and support around AWS migration and modernisation – starting with the OLA assessment.
Why work with Silicon Overdrive?
Silicon Overdrive has significant experience helping customers migrate to the cloud, modernizing their applications to utilize cloud-native services, securing these workloads, and delivering Managed Services to our customers.
Assessing and securing our customers’ environments and saving them money is our foremost priority. As Microsoft Modern Work and Infrastructure Azure Solution Partners, with over 25 years of experience delivering Microsoft solutions, the Silicon Overdrive team is also an expert on Windows workloads.
We assist customers from various industries, including Financial Services, Public Sector, Higher Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Media, Non-profit, Retail, and Technology companies.
We have been awarded AWS System Integrator Partner of the Year Sub-Saharan Africa 2023, AWS Public Sector Partner of the Year Sub-Saharan Africa 2021, and AWS Consulting Partner of the Year Sub-Saharan Africa 2020.
We are an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, AWS Education Services Competency Partner, AWS Migration Competency Partner, AWS DevOps Competency Partner, AWS Solution Provider Partner, AWS Immersion Day Partner, and AWS Public Sector Partner.
We are also an AWS Well-Architected Partner and an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for Microsoft Windows Service Delivery Partner.
Our AWS team has 100+ AWS certifications, including AWS Developer Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Database Specialty, AWS Security Specialty, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, AWS Data Analytics Specialty, and AWS Advanced Networking Specialty certifications.
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*Source: State of the Cloud Survey 2021, Flexera, 2021.