Using Silicon for Cost Optimization

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AWS claims cloud TCO is 66% lower than on‑prem (63% compute, 69% storage) and highlights concrete wins: Nitro yields ~15% higher throughput; Graviton shows ~40% better price‑performance and ~20% cost reduction for on‑demand; combining Spot Instances plus Savings Plans yields up to ~70% additional savings for some customers; Inferentia2 offers up to 4× throughput, 10× lower latency and ~40% better price‑performance (Finch reports ~80% cost cuts); predictive Auto Scaling and tooling (Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer) automate and capture these savings.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speakers
2. 1:07Cloud cost misconceptions
3. 2:09Custom silicon advantage
4. 4:34Nitro system benefits
5. 6:37Choosing instance types
6. 8:22Graviton processors
7. 9:24Trainium and Inferentia
8. 11:49Cloud scalability benefits
9. 13:13Auto scaling explained
10. 16:01Purchasing models
11. 18:50Combining spot and Graviton
12. 20:14Serverless computing
13. 21:38Cost optimization tools
14. 22:42Key takeaways