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Cutting Waste Without Cutting Corners: Smarter Cloud Economics

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June 18, 2025

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Cutting Waste Without Cutting Corners: Smarter Cloud Economics

Cost-cutting in IT often raises concerns about reduced performance or lost capacity. The real opportunity, however, is in eliminating waste while maintaining capability; a balance that AWS OLA helps organisations achieve.

Why Waste Is Different From Efficiency

  • Unused licences contribute nothing yet cost as much as active ones.
  • Over-provisioned servers deliver no additional performance but inflate bills.
  • Obsolete systems drain maintenance budgets without business value.

The AWS OLA identifies these waste points without undermining core systems.

How OLA Enables Smart Savings

  • Utilisation analysis pinpoints excess capacity.
  • Licence optimisation ensures spend matches actual usage.
  • Modernisation insights highlight workloads safe to retire.
  • Fact-based recommendations separate essential spend from waste.

What Smarter Economics Delivers

  • Savings without sacrifice.
  • Performance maintained.
  • Budgets redirected to fund innovation.

True optimisation cuts waste, not corners.

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Ready to Cut Waste, Not Value?

Smarter economics strengthens IT without weakening performance.

Optimise costs without compromise using AWS OLA

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