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

It is mostly fluff written for potential customers with no practical guidance.

It defines the security responsibilities of companies in regulated industries.

It can be augmented with Lenses for specific industries or use-cases.

It precisely describes the exact steps one must follow to control AWS costs.

Which statement about the AWS Well-Architected Framework is correct?

Which statement about the AWS Well-Architected Framework is correct?

Hiring an experienced external consultant to define and write governance policies for your team.

Setting up consolidated billing across all AWS accounts.

Crafting governance policies that contain a decision tree for deciding which S3 service tier to use.

Implementing automation that terminates EC2 instances that are not tagged.

What would likely have the most positive long-term impact on your AWS cost profile?

What would likely have the most positive long-term impact on your AWS cost profile?

“You're wrong. You don't get root access.  You won't get building access, either.  You're fired!”

“You're right. Let's set up a server and install MySQL instead, then we'll give you root credentials.”

“Let's compare the things you do today with root access on the local database server with what RDS can do for us automatically.”

“It's just a matter of time until we're all replaced with scripts anyway.  I miss the good old days when knowing Emacs was respected.”

What would be the best response to the following statement from your current database administrator? 

“We can't run our MySQL database on RDS because we need root access!”

What would be the best response to the following statement from your current database administrator?
“We can’t run our MySQL database on RDS because we need root access!”

A company requires employees to get manager and director approval before booking business travel.

A CFO is sentenced to jail time when the company is found to engage in fraudulent accounting practices.

A project manager defines and documents the change control process to require a sign-off from the tech lead and respective business analyst.

An Agile software development team establishes “definition of done” for items in their next sprint backlog.

What would be the best example of good governance?

What would be the best example of good governance?

Test your understanding of the key points of the AWS Cost Optimization Pillar.

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!

Quiz: AWS Cost Optimization Pillar