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Top strategies for cost optimization
Billing and cost management
Other tools
Assignments
References
New topics
● Reserved instances EC2 & RDS:
○ Module 12 Presentation [Slides 59]
○ Walkthrough EC2 (Web console)
○ Walkthrough RDS (Web console)
● Spot instances:
○ Spot instances product overview:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/
○ Compare spot instance prices to ondemand/reserved prices
○ Walkthrough EC2 (Web console)
○ Walkthrough EMR (Web console)
Top strategies for cost optimization
Top 3 strategies
● Avoid overprovisioning
● Reserved instances
● Spot instances
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/optimizingforcostintheawscloud5waystof
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[Slides 741]
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/costoptimisationonaws [Slides 915]
Other strategies
● S3 Storage classes
● Offload to S3/Cloud Front/Cache
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/costoptimisationonaws [Slides 1819]
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/optimizingforcostintheawscloud5waystof
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[Slides 5861]
Module 12 Presentation [Slides 1011]
Billing and cost management
Walkthrough: Dashboard
Walkthrough: Bill details
● By service
● By region
● By operation/metric
Walkthrough: Cost Explorer
● Monthly spend + forecast
● Monthly forecast by Service
● Monthly spend by linked account
● Monthtodate daily spend by service
Walkthrough: Budgets
● By type: service, linked account, tags, purchase type
● Notifications/Alarms
Walkthrough: Reports
● EC2 Instance usage
● AWS usage report
● Create hourly report
Walkthrough: Cost allocation tags
Other tools
Walkthrough: Trusted Advisor
Walkthrough: Simple monthly calculator
Assignments
● Create a resource tagging system for your company/project based on an understanding
of cost centers or budget heads
● Forecast EC2 demand for your company/project and document plan for reserved,
ondemand or spot instances, and also autoscaling/instance types
● Forecast the cost for the assignment above
References
Trusted advisor best practices
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/bestpractices/
Cost optimization on AWS
● http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/costoptimizationonaws
● http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/costoptimisationonaws
● http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/optimizingforcostintheawscloud5w
aystofurthersaveawssummit2012nycjineshvaria
Spot instances
● https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/spottutorials/
● https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/bidadvisor/