Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is an easy-to-use, high-performance, block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for both throughput-intensive and transaction-intensive workloads at any scale. You can deploy a broad range of workloads on Amazon EBS, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows. In this course, you learn about cost optimization for your Amazon EBS deployments. You learn to apply the principles of the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to your Amazon EBS volumes, identify common cost optimization opportunities, apply pricing and performance consideration to choosing Amazon EBS volume types, and use AWS Cost Optimizer to help manage your cost optimization opportunities.

• Course level: Advanced
• Duration: 30 minutes

Activities

This course includes references to online materials, demonstrations, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Implement cost savings techniques through management of under-used resources
• Make appropriate changes to EBS volume characteristics to reduce costs
• Use AWS Cost Optimizer to manage Amazon EBS volume sizing and volume types for cost optimization

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects
• IT professionals

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Completed the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Primer course

Course outline

Section 1: Introduction

• How to Use This Course
• Course Overview

Section 2: Introduction to Cost Optimization

• AWS Well-Architected Cost Optimization Pillar
• Common Amazon EBS Cost Optimization Opportunities

Section 3: Amazon EBS Pricing

• Pricing Considerations
• Amazon EBS Pricing Review
• EBS Volume Type Pricing Comparisons
• EBS Snapshot Billing Review

Section 4: Volume Cost Optimization Tool

• Using AWS Compute Optimizer for EBS Volumes
• AWS Cost Optimizer Demonstration

Section 5: Knowledge Check

• Knowledge Check Quiz

Section 6: Resources and Feedback

• Resources
• Feedback