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How to optimize costs for grant-based research projects with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Customers with strict procurement or cost allocation processes can consider Reserved Instances, as these can be purchased for one- or three-year terms and can secure a definitive cost. Customers have the ability to use Advance Pay to prepay for the cloud while not committing to definite usage or particular services. Savings Plans.

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The true costs of resiliency decisions

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS Shared Responsibility Model for resiliency Before making costing decisions on AWS services, it is helpful to have a basic definition of resiliency and to understand how AWS shares resiliency responsibilities with our customers. The AWS Shares Responsibility model. Resiliency is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer.

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So, Your Jurisdiction is Thinking of Starting a Revenue Manual…

Death and Taxes

The revenue manual wish list: A definition and description of the revenue instrument. These can all be considered components of the legal structure, but they are also important facets of the financial management of the revenue source. That leads to the next critical question, what all should be included in a revenue manual?

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WHEN IT COMES TO DATA, CONTEXT IS KING

Barrett & Greene

“If you see a number that supports your argument it might be easier to just take it, without digging deeper,” according to Sam Gallaher, head of data science at Third Line an audit and financial management software company. It’s definitely a challenge in doing research and being open to numbers that challenge your hypothesis.