AWS: Controlling Cost
2h 36mIntermediate2021-01-20
Authors
Lynn Langit
Cloud Architect
Course details
Learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools and best practices to understand, forecast, and control service costs. This course covers core AWS tools, such as CloudWatch billing alarms, consolidated billing with AWS Organizations, and the AWS billing dashboard tools. Instructor Lynn Langit shows how to control costs through key services, such as EC2, S3, RDS, and more. She also reviews architectural decisions related to cost control drawn from her own professional experiences.
Skills covered
Project Management SkillsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonCloud ServicesProject ManagementCloud PlatformsCloud ComputingDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Control your costs on AWS
- About using cloud services
Approaches to Cloud Service Cost Control
- Why control AWS service costs
- Who should manage AWS cost control
- Understanding AWS free tier
- AWS Billing Dashboard and AWS Budgets
- AWS Organizations - Consolidate costs
- Other AWS Biling tools - Tagging
- AWS Config tag rules
- Tag resource groups and cost categories
- Billing and preferences
Control Costs by Service
- AWS service types
- File storage costs - S3
- Compute costs - EC2 instance types
- Compute costs - EC2 purchase types
- Control compute costs - Lambda
- Control database costs - RDS
- Control database costs - DynamoDB
- Start services with CloudFormation
Cost Management Tools
- Cost Explorer
- Cost and Usage Reports
- Budgets Reports
- Anomaly Detection
- Reservations
- Savings Plans
AWS Cost Control Tools
- CloudWatch billing alarms
- AWS Marketplace subscriptions
- AWS Service Catalog
- AWS EC2 Compute Optimizer
- Well-Architected cost control workload
Cost Control Scenarios
- Understand true cost
- Marketing website
- Dynamic website
- Internal business application
- Big data pipeline
- Other cost control tips
Conclusion
- Next steps to control costs