AWS: Cost and Performance Optimization

Learn how to control cloud costs and optimize performance of apps in AWS.

Introduction

• Optimizing cost and performance in AWS
• What you should know

1. Apply Cost Optimization Strategies

• Cost allocation tags
• AWS-generated cost allocation tags
• User-defined cost allocation tags
• Monthly cost allocation report
• Using AWS Budgets
• Create billing alarms
• AWS Cost Explorer

2. Improve Resource Utilization

• AWS Trusted Advisor
• Trusted Advisor recommendations
• AWS Compute Optimizer

3. Optimize Your EC2 Costs

• On-demand EC2 instances
• EC2 Spot Instances
• Requesting Spot Instances
• Spot instance interruptions

4. Use Managed Services

• Amazon RDS
• AWS Fargate
• Amazon EFS

5. Improve EC2 Performance

• Optimize EC2 instance usage
• Optimize EBS volumes
• Enhanced networking
• Placement groups
• EC2 instance store

6. Apply Performance Optimization Strategies

• S3 Transfer Acceleration
• S3 multipart uploads
• Use RDS Performance Insights
• A word on RDS Proxy

Conclusion

• Next steps