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Eli Mansoor is an accomplished cloud transformation leader with 25 years’ experience in the technology market and ALMOST TEN YEARS‘ EXPERIENCE IN THE CLOUD INDUSTRY, including four years’ experience working at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Recently, Eli left AWS to pursue his passion and start a business focusing on improving cloud customers’ gross margin by optimizing vendors’ agreements and cloud spend.
Eli Mansoor is an accomplished cloud transformation leader with ALMOST TEN YEARS‘ EXPERIENCE IN THE INDUSTRY, including four years’ experience working at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Eli left AWS this past May to start a business focusing on improving cloud customers’ gross margin by optimizing vendors’ agreements and cloud spend.
In his four years with AWS, Eli was an Account Manager, supporting Enterprise customers with their cloud transformation journey and more recently, was Business Development manager, part of the AWS (EC2) Compute team. Before joining AWS, Eli was the Israel manager for CloudHealth Technologies (acquired by VMware), a Cloud Financial Management SaaS platform and, previously, was the Israel manager for Rackspace (acquired by Apollo Global Management). In these roles, Eli helped numerous organizations with their digital transformation journey, set up Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) teams, saved millions of dollars of cloud spend, built their FinOps practice and negotiated better terms for their cloud vendor or cloud resellers’ agreements. At AWS, Eli was part of a team defining content for AWS Cloud Financial Management certification and training and presented in various Cloud Financial Management / FinOps events including AWS Summits around the globe.
In 2019, Eli co-authored the book Mastering AWS Cost Optimization, that has since become a cornerstone for all FinOps engineers around the globe. The third release is now available in English and will soon be released in additional languages.
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Over the past 18 months I have provided support to several organizations in their AWS EDP (Enterprise Discount Agreement, now called PPA – Private Pricing Agreement) negotiations. Some are agreements signed directly with AWS and others via AWS resellers. In this blog I will share what I consider some of the best practices, based on my experience in consulting and AWS days.
A few weeks ago, I left AWS to start my own business – one focused on empowering organizations with their cloud journey. This change will allow me to pursue my own passion to support cloud customers by fine-tuning their cloud vendor agreement terms, optimizing their cloud spend, building cost aware culture and much more.
