Applying Cost Optimization Tools to Your AWS Workloads

Course details

Explore the costs associated with a hosted application stack at AWS. Instructor Mark Wilkins explores how to use AWS cost-related tools to better understand how costs are calculated, as well as how to optimize workloads to reduce costs. Mark provides guidance on working within the Billing and Cost Management console and AWS Cost and Usage Reports. He also covers the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and how to follow the recommended cost optimizations. Upon completing this course, you'll have the knowledge you need to better ensure that your projects are both effective and economical.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - AWS Cost Management tools

1. Understanding AWS Cloud Pricing

02 - AWS pricing concepts
03 - Tiered pricing concepts
04 - Understanding EBS storage pricing at AWS
05 - Understanding compute pricing at AWS
06 - Networking and data transfer costs
07 - Calculate AWS Config usage
08 - Calculate the costs of a hosting a dynamic web application
09 - Cost optimization pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework

2. AWS Cost Management Tools

10 - AWS Billing and Cost Management console
11 - AWS Cost Explorer
12 - AWS Cost and Usage Reports
13 - Working with Cost and Usage Reports
14 - AWS Trusted Advisor cost optimization checks
15 - AWS Budgets
16 - Create a cost and usage budget with customized alerts
17 - Consolidated billing using AWS Organizations
18 - Creating tags
19 - AWS costing tools to enable
20 - Using the AWS Pricing Calculator

3. AWS Cost Optimization Strategies

21 - Right-sizing EC2 instances
22 - AWS EC2 Auto Scaling and predictive scaling
23 - Scaling AWS compute resources
24 - S3 storage classes
25 - S3 object lifecycle policies
26 - Lifecycle policies
27 - Data archiving with S3 Glacier
28 - Managing EBS snapshot costs
29 - Cost allocation tags

4. Are You Well-Architected

30 - Understanding the cost optimization pillar
31 - Cloud financial management
32 - Enabling Cost Optimization tools
33 - Cost-effective resources
34 - Managing supply and demand with resources
35 - Establishing sustainability goals
36 - Well-Architected Tool

Conclusion

37 - Next steps