Amazon Web Services: Controlling Cost (2018)

Learn how to use AWS tools and best practices to understand, forecast, and control Amazon Web Services (AWS) service costs.

Introduction

• Control your costs on AWS
• About using cloud services

1. 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

2. 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

3. Cost Management Tools

• Cost Explorer
• Cost and Usage Reports
• Budgets Reports
• Anomaly Detection
• Reservations
• Savings Plans

4. AWS Cost Control Tools

• CloudWatch billing alarms
• AWS Marketplace subscriptions
• AWS Service Catalog
• AWS EC2 Compute Optimizer
• Well-Architected cost control workload

5. 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