Cloud Cost Management

How to Lower Your Cloud Costs

• Cloud Networking

Cloud costs can pile up quickly, and often behind the scenes. We explain how you can help your business keep cloud spend under control.

Executives, Here’s What Your Network Team Wants You to Know

• News

Understanding and aligning to the needs of your network team can unlock a more profitable, efficient, and sustainable business.

Three Hidden Costs in Your Multicloud Setup

• Cloud Networking

If you’re looking to improve your business’ bottom line, there are a few creeping fees to be aware of when it comes to the cloud. Here’s how to manage them.

How Flexify.IO is Using Megaport to Lower Cloud Data Migration Costs for Customers

Flexify.IO’s shift from public to private connectivity has reduced egress costs and increased customer cloud data migrations by five-fold. Here’s how.

Reducing Costs With AWS

• Cloud Networking

Save on egress, setup, and maintenance fees with our simple tips on reducing your enterprise costs with AWS.

Optimizing Performance and Cost With Private Connectivity

Cloud optimization is essential to reducing costs and improving performance – but what’s the best method? We explore why private connectivity may be the answer. Operating in the cloud is no longer merely an option for doing business in today’s data-driven commercial landscape. The uptake in public cloud services shows that enterprises are whole-heartedly embracing the cloud with projections of a $397.5 billion combined end-user spend on cloud services by 2022.

The Hidden Cost of Running Cloud-Hosted SD-WAN for IaaS

• Cloud Networking

In an industry driven by SD-WAN, there are three common ways to connect your branch locations to the cloud. We break down the benefits and limitations of each.

Need to Reduce Your Overall Cloud Spend? Consider a Better Connectivity Model

Cloud adoption continues to accelerate while managing cloud spend remains a challenge for most organisations.

This Month in Cloud: Financial Benefits of Private Cloud Interconnection

Customers choose to use AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, network performance, security/privacy and reduction of bandwidth costs. In the field it’s routinely observed that most customers primarily adopt a private cloud interconnection network architecture because of the performance and security advantages. However, from time-to-time, reduction of bandwidth/network costs is cited as being weighted as an important metric. Many customers understand there is a positive tradeoff between dedicated internet access (transit) costs and transport costs. However, what is not commonly understood is that the major public cloud providers such as AWS and Microsoft financially incentivize their customers to adopt private interconnection (aka Direct Connect and ExpressRoute, respectively) by reducing the Data Transfer “outbound” charges (approximately $0.09/GB to approximately $0.03/GB in North America).

Getting the most out of ExpressRoute’s price reduction

Late last week Microsoft released a significant overhaul of their ExpressRoute offer pricing for users of direct Office 365 connectivity. The Premium routing option, which is required for Office 365 has dropped from USD$3k/month (on top of the standard port charges), to just USD$75/month in the case of the 50Mbps circuit sizing. Check out the updated ExpressRoute pricing table on the Microsoft site. Alongside this fantastic announcement the team here at Megaport would like to share with you some of the changes that are being implemented to either fine tune your current ExpressRoute deployment or get started on your journey to implementing a secure dedicated pipe to the Microsoft cloud.