Learn the tools, techniques, and strategies to maximize your AWS landscape while minimizing the cost.

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Your organization weighed the options, ran the numbers, took a deep breath, and migrated to the cloud. That’s a perfectly solid strategic move—but your monthly invoices aren’t quite as lean as your original business case predicted. What’s worse, they are actually larger than your prior costs and increasing! This, unfortunately, is not uncommon. However, you can manage your resources with smart cost optimization techniques to shrink those bills. 

Optimizing your costs–regardless of the cloud provider–takes some work. In this course, you'll discover methods and tools on AWS to optimize cloud costs, including best practices for efficiency, cost transparency, and automation. 

You'll gain a comprehensive grasp of cloud economics, cost considerations, and a practical toolbox for streamlining AWS workloads with reduced manual effort. By implementing some strategies in this course, you will significantly reduce the chances of ever getting that surprise AWS invoice again!

AWS Cost Optimization

The following is a fictional scenario based loosely on real-world organizations. The details have been changed, but the issues and challenges mirror the problems being faced by many organizations as they weigh their options.

At the end, there are some questions. Based on what you've learned so far, think about how you might respond if you were in the same situation. There are no right or wrong answers. We have supplied our response for you to reference here, but you may have different ideas and that's ok! The objective is to get you used to applying what you're learning to the real world.




Test out your strategic cost optimization thinking on this case study.

Introduction

The Economics of Cloud Computing

The AWS Cost Optimization Pillar

Rightsizing

Elasticity

Pick the Right Pricing Model

Measure, Monitor, Improve

More Ways to Save

Wrap Up and Keeping Current

You Make The (Cost Optimization) Call!

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