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Optimizing cloud costs to drive innovation and long-term value

As organizations strive to optimize costs and drive innovation, the cloud has emerged as a critical enabler. This white paper explores how public sector organizations can improve ROI and cultivate long-term value from the cloud through AWS.

Key insights include:

  • Cost optimization is a top priority, but organizations must also focus on delivering new products and services faster to remain competitive
  • AWS helps organizations optimize infrastructure costs and reinvest savings into innovation
  • Customers have achieved significant benefits, including up to 66% lower total cost of infrastructure operations over 3 years

To learn more about how AWS can help your organization, read the white paper.

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