AWS Cost Optimization

Optimizing cloud costs is a crucial task for businesses that rely on services such as AWS. The cost of running applications and services on the cloud can quickly add up, and without proper monitoring and management, it can become a significant expense. In this article, we will dive into the various pricing options offered by AWS and explore the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Proven strategies to effectively optimize your AWS Cost

The reality is that cost optimization can be a complex and ongoing process. It requires a thorough understanding of the different AWS services and pricing models, as well as the ability to monitor and analyze usage patterns and costs. Understanding the business's specific needs and usage patterns is essential for AWS cost optimization. This includes evaluating performance, availability, compliance, and security requirements. It is also important to stay up to date with the latest pricing models and services offered by AWS and to adjust the cost optimization strategy accordingly.

AWS cost optimization typically involves a combination of different strategies, such as:

  • Right-sizing resources: Ensuring that you are using the appropriate instance types and sizes for your workloads.
  • Scheduling non-production resources: Turning off or shutting down resources when they are not needed.
  • Selecting the right pricing model: Choosing the pricing model that best aligns with your usage patterns and requirements, such as on-demand, reserved instances or savings plans.
  • Leveraging cost management tools: Utilizing AWS cost management tools such as Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, and Cost and Usage Report to monitor and optimize costs.

Overall, AWS cost optimization requires a combination of technical knowledge, analytical skills, and business acumen. It's important to have a dedicated resource to monitor and optimize costs, and it's critical to have a culture of cost optimization within the organization.

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Choosing the Right Discounted Plans: When to Use Reserved Instances vs Savings Plan

AWS Savings Plans can be a good way to reduce costs for AWS customers who use a steady level of compute capacity over time. By committing to a consistent amount of usage, customers can receive discounted rates that can result in significant savings compared to on-demand pricing. However, it's important to carefully review your usage patterns and ensure that a Savings Plan aligns with your needs before committing to one. Below is some scenarios in which these become valuable to the business:

  • When you know the specific instance types and the number of instances that you need to run for a steady-state workload or When you need to make a capacity reservation for a specific instance type, size and availability zone then you should make use of reserved instances.
  • When you have a variable workload and you want to optimize costs by automatically using the most cost-effective instance types and sizes from a specific family then you can go for a savings plan.

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Mastering Art of Cost Optimization with AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that examines customers' AWS setups and provides advice to help maximize performance, security, and cost-effectiveness.

In terms of cost monitoring, AWS Trusted Advisor can provide the following recommendations:

  • Identifying underutilized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances that can be right-sized to lower costs.
  • Identifying Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes and Elastic IP addresses that are no longer in use and can be deleted.
  • Identifying Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances that are running with storage that can be reduced.
  • Identifying Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets that have public access permissions, which can increase costs.
  • Identifying Amazon CloudFront distributions that are using unnecessary custom origins, which can increase costs.
  • Identifying Reserved Instances and Savings Plans that are not fully utilized, and can therefore be exchanged or modified to lower costs.
  • Identifying Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters that are over-provisioned, which can increase costs.

AWS Trusted Advisor cost monitoring helps to identify wasted spend, and make recommendations on how to reduce costs by optimizing usage, rightsizing resources and identifying opportunities to use reserved instances and savings plans.

Reports

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Explorer

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Notifications

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