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Evolution of the Status Quo

The Procurement School

The pandemic initially impacted supply and demand on many items but now there is a broader material and labour landscape that needs to be closely examined, understood, and carefully navigated. Trust is precious and essential, and it must be preserved, so be open and transparent about money up front.

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It’s time to evolve IT procurement

AWS Public Sector

Figure 1 show a comparison of on-premises and cloud procurement models against nonlinear application demand. A comparison of the procurement models for an on-premises deployment and a cloud deployment when mapped against a nonlinear demand curve for an underlying application. Workloads typically follow fluctuating demand curves.

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5 best practices for accelerating research computing with AWS

AWS Public Sector

Adopting a Cloud Value Framework can help users understand the business value of moving to and building on AWS, and the Cost Optimization Flywheel can be a useful tool for understanding cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization.