Conclusion and Keeping Current
Explore the comprehensive concepts of AWS cost optimization covered in this course, including cost management pillars, pricing models, and elasticity. Understand that cost optimization is an ongoing process and learn methods to stay current with AWS tools, updates, and community resources to continuously manage and reduce cloud expenses.
We'll cover the following...
Congratulations, we made it! Let’s take a moment to reflect on what we've covered through this course.
We began by outlining how we should think about cost—not as a flat number but as a complex combination of value and utility.
We then covered the concept of total cost of ownership and some common cost components that we should include in an overall cost/value picture.
At a high level, we introduced the AWS Cost Optimization Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and dove right into various parts of that pillar.
We reviewed some ways to rightsize our landscape through provisioning and having the AWS platform provide recommendations for us.
We then covered Elasticity—our ability to scale up, ...