AWS Cost Optimisation Flashcards
Choose the right pricing models
Use Reserved Instances (RI) to reduce Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon
ElastiCache, and Amazon Elasticsearch costs
Amazon EC2 Cost Savings
Match capacity with demand
Identify Amazon EC2 instances with low-utilization and reduce cost by stopping or rightsizing
Identify Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift instances with low utilization and reduce cost by stopping (RDS) and pausing (Redshift)
Analyze Amazon DynamoDB usage and reduce cost by leveraging Autoscaling or On-demand
Implement processes to identify resource waste
Identify Amazon EBS volumes with low-utilization and reduce cost by snapshotting then deleting them
Analyze Amazon S3 usage and reduce cost by leveraging lower cost
storage tiers
Review networking and reduce costs by deleting idle load balancers