H OW DOES OVERSPENDING OCCUR ?

• Over-Provisioned • CapEx-Focused

• Over-Sized • IaaS-Focused

• Orphaned • No Commitments

• Abstract or Hidden Pricing • Democratized

• No Visibility • Old Operating Model

• Old-School Processes • Unlimited Scale

• Centralized Purchases • New Consumption Model

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W HAT DOES
CLOUD COST • Organizational changes
MANAGEMENT
• Operating model
INVOLVE ?
( BEYOND • Accountability model
OPTIMIZING ) • Pricing model
• Governance
• Tools
• Design cost-Consciously
• Resource organization
• Computing models
• Purpose-built services
• Commitments
• Anomalies
• Standards & Decision Trees

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 INTRODUCTIONS
ü Why Course is Important C OURSE S UMMARY
ü Course Navigation
ü Course Slides Download 95 Videos, 7 Hours Content, 25 Demos,100 Quiz Questions
ü Why Listen to me
FOUNDATION FOR ALLOCATION OPTIMIZATION STRATEGIES AWS SERVICES & TOOLS COVERED
CLOUD PRICING BASICS ü Accounts ü Optimization Pillars ü EC2, S3
ü AWS Organizations ü Design with Cost in Mind ü Pricing Calculator
ü Pricing Concepts
ü Service Control Policies ü Standards, Decision Trees, Playbooks ü Free Tier
ü Pricing in Cloud vs. On Premise
ü AWS Control Tower ü PaaS vs. IaaS vs. SaaS ü Savings Plans, Reserved Instances,
ü AWS Free Tier
ü Serverless Reservations
ü Autoscaling ü Billing Conductor
PRICING RESEARCH / ESTIMATION COST ALLOCATION / TAGGING ü Spot Instances ü AWS Budgets
ü Pricing Research Methods ü Tags – Using, Viewing, Modifying ü AWS Trusted Advisor ü Accounts, AWS Organizations, AWS
ü Cloud Pricing Models ü Tags – Enforcing, Alerting Control Tower, Landing Zones
ü AWS Pricing Calculator ü AWS Cost Categories ü Tags, Cost Categories
ü AWS Config, Tag Editor, SCPs, Tag
SAVINGS PLANS / RESERVATIONS Policies
BUDGETS AWS Cost Explorer
BILLING & COST CONSOLE ü
ü AWS Savings Plans ü Amazon Quicksight
ü AWS Budgets – Basics
ü AWS Reservations ü AWS Billing & Cost Consoles ü AWS IAM, AWS CloudFormation, AWS
ü AWS Budgets – Creating & Using
ü AWS Reserved Instances ü Billing Alarms Service Catalog, Quotas
ü AWS Billing Console
ORG & CULTURE CHANGE ü Cost & Usage Reports
VISIBILITY / ANALYTICS ü Cost Anomaly Detection
ü 6 Pillars of Successful Cost Mgmt SUPPORTING SERVICES
ü Cost Explorer ü Amazon Cloudwatch, EventBridge
ü Governance
ü Cost Anomaly Detection ü Cloud Intelligence Dashboards
ü Operating Model ü Service Catalog, IAM, Quotas
ü Cost & Usage Reports ü AWS Well Architected Framework
ü CCOE & FinOps

ACCOUNTABILITY / SHOWBACK ADVANCED VISIBILITY INTERACTIVE

ü Showback & Chargeback RESOURCES
ü Quicksight ü 3 Assignments, 25 Demos
ü Shared Costs ü Cost Intelligence Dashboards ü Well Architected Framework ü 23 Quizzes, 100+ Questions
ü AWS Billing Conductor ü CUDOS, CID, KPI Dashboards ü Blogs, News, Event Content ü 1 Final Exam, 50+ Questions

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CLOUD PRICING BASICS Pricing
•
•
On Demand
Commitment
Models • Spot Instances
• Free Tier

Pricing • CapEx à OpEx • Compute

Fundamentals • Storage
• Data Transfer

• Pay for Use

• Pay as You Go Pricing • Resource Usage
• Time
Pricing • Use More & Pay Less Factors • Service Levels
Benefits • Commit & Pay Less
• Optimized
• IaaS
• No Complex Licensing Service • PaaS
Models • SaaS

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 PRICING: CLOUD VS. ON PREMISE
DIMENSION ON PREMISE CLOUD
CapEx vs. OpEx Upfront capital expenditure Pay for services as you consume them

Economic Model Fixed costs, irrespective of use Pay as you go, pay for what you use

Maintenance & Upgrades Must be accounted for Not applicable for hardware, sometimes software

Scalability & Elasticity Planning, Provisioning, Deploying, Overallocation Dynamic Scalability & Elasticity

Licensing Required, Long term commitments Sometimes included

Indirect Costs Power, Cooling, Real Estate Included in pricing

Longevity & Depreciation Hardware depreciates Cloud provider handles

Cost Predictability Upfront clear. Unforeseen possible. Variability possible from Scalability

Customization & Optimization VMs specs can be optimized. Hardware not. VM customization limits. Hardware no concern.

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 FREE TIER

SCOPE HOW USE? BEST PRACTICES

• Monitor Usage
• Exploration &
• Always Free • Read fine print
Learning
• 12 months Free • Startup Use • Account Age
• Short Term Trials • Small Projects • Multiple services
• Watch for trials

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 q Navigate to
CHALLENGE! Amazon Athena
pricing

q Determine: What
affects pricing? What
might we be billed
for?

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 Answers

CHALLENGE! Pay based on Data Processed or Compute

Used

Specifically:
• SQL Queries – per query billing, based on
data scanned
• SQL Queries with Provisioned Capacity –
pay by the hour, flat rate
• Apache Spark – hourly rate based on the
capacity (size of DPUs)
• Possible additional charges

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 AWS PRICE CALCULATOR

HOW DO YOU USE IT? HOW HELP WITH COST MGMT?

1. Visit Website 1. Budgeting

2. Select Services 2. Cost Exploration
3. Configure Options 3. Scenario Comparison
4. View Estimate 4. Forecasting

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 Instructions
Using AWS Pricing Calculator, retrieve estimated
CHALLENGE! monthly cost for:

EC2 Instance:
• Region: Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1
• Operating System: Windows Server
• Instance: r5.xlarge
• Payment: On Demand, 100% usage
• Other Values: Shared Tenancy, Constant
Usage

Elastic Block Store (EBS) Volume:

• Storage type: gp3 (general purpose ssd)
• IOPS: 200
• Throughput: 100 Mbps
• Amount: 128GB
• No snapshots

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 SAVINGS PLANS & RESERVATIONS
GENERAL IDEA DISCOUNT BASED ON OTHER KEY POINTS

• Commit to a type of usage, • Commitment term (1 or 3-yr.) • Services with Discount Plans:
• Payment option o EC2, Fargate, Lambda,
• …an amount of usage,
• SP or RI type Sagemaker, RDS,
• …for specific AWS services, • Instance family (sometimes) ElastiCache, OpenSearch,
• …over a 1–3 year period. Redshift, DynamoDB
• In Exchange for a Discount OTHER KEY POINTS • Payment Options
o No Upfront
• SP & RIs are billing discounts
o Partial Upfront
only – nothing technically
o All Upfront (best discount)
HIGHEST DISCOUNT? different.
• Reservations can be Scoped to
• Expirations or Overages fall certain Resources (example:
• More specific commitment
back to on-demand pricing. select accounts)
• Longer commitment
• Use it or Lose it! No carry- • No action needed to “use” the
• Early payment
over. SP or RI after purchasing

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 SAVINGS PLANS

COMPUTE SPS EC2 INSTANCE SPS SAGEMAKER SPS

• Discounts up to 66% • Discounts up to 72% • Discounts up to 64%
• EC2, Fargate, Lambda • EC2 only • Any Sagemaker instance – any
• Most flexibility Family, Size, Region
• Commit to specific Instance
• Applies to any Instance Family, Family & Region
Size, Region, Availability Zone, • Applies to any AZ (within that
Operating System, or Tenancy Region), any Size (within that
Family), any OS, any Tenancy.

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 Overview
• Lookup, Collect & Analyze discount model
pricing for a particular EC2 configuration

CHALLENGE! across 4 Savings Plan options.

• PDF Template is attached as a Resource to this
lecture to help you collect & fill out the
values.

Instructions
• From:
https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compu
te-pricing/
• Lookup pricing and discount information for
each of the 4 scenarios
• Fill out PDF template with answers (PDF is
attached as Resource to this lecture)
• Compare answers against expected results

Answers & Guidance is in the next lecture video

– but try it yourself first for practice!

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 RESERVED INSTANCES
SCOPING CLASS PAYMENT
• Zonal • Standard Class • All Upfront (highest discount)

• Locked into AZ • Up to 72% discount • Partial Upfront

• Locked into Instance • Least Flexible
• Locked: Instance Family & • No Upfront
Family/Size
• Get Capacity Reservation Region (Linux can change
size)
• Regional • Tiered Discounts MARKETPLACE
• Any AZ in specific Region • Convertible Class • Sell or Buy unused Standard
• Locked into Family (Linux RI’s
can change size) • Up to 54% discount
• No Capacity Reservation • Convert between Families, • Usually discounted off regular
OS, Tenancy AWS rates

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 RESERVATIONS
AVAILABLE FOR RDS ELASTICACHE

• RDS • 1- or 3-year term

• 1- or 3-year term
• Up to 69% discount
• Elasticache • Light, Med, Heavy
• Aurora*, MySQL*, utilization cache nodes
• OpenSearch MariaDB*, PostgreSQL*,
• Redis & Memcached
Oracle, SQL Server
• Redshift • Cluster Nodes using
• *Offer Instance Size
Data Tiering
• DynamoDB Flexibility

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 SPS, RIS, RES. – BEST PRACTICES

• Multiple Plans & Multiple Models are

• Optimize Underlying Resources
good
• Strategize & Plan
• Rolling Savings Plan approach
• Don’t Buy in Advance – always be a little
behind • Diversify commitments
• Understand the Commit & Restrictions • Commitment Plans are different from
Capacity Reservations
• Regularly Monitor & Adjust – Cost
Explorer & Budgets • Regularly Exchange Convertible Ris
• KPI Monitoring – Coverage & Utilization • Take Advantage of the RI Marketplace
• Use AWS Organizations • Regular Reviews

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 PRINCIPLE: GOVERNANCE

1. Policies, Standards, Automation

2. Responsibilities
3. Accountabilities
4. Monitoring & Reporting
5. Budgeting & Forecasting
6. Approval Workflows
7. Training & Education

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PRINCIPLE: ACCOUNTABILITY

1. Visibility & Ownership

2. Distributed Model
3. On Demand
4. Optimized Spending
5. Financial Predictability
6. Cultural Shift

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 SHARED COSTS

Types of Shared Costs

§ Infrastructure layer
§ Application layer
Maturity Path
Custom
Solution
3rd Party
Fundamental Solutions Tool
AWS Cost
Categories
Flat Rate
1. Central IT Cost Center Allocation
Leave
2. Shared Allocation Solution shared costs
centrally
charged

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 AWS BILLING CONDUCTOR

HOW HELP WITH COMMON

EXAMPLES
COST MGMT? USE CASES
• Improve Cost • SW Company – SaaS
Visibility • Showback application
• Allocate Costs • Managed Service
Accurately • Chargeback Providers
• Reduce Manual • Internal Billing • Large Enterprises –
Billing Tasks internal billing

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 PRINCIPLE: COST ALLOCATION
IMPORTANCE METHODS BEST PRACTICES

• Transparency • Consistent Tagging

• Tagging Strategy
• Accountability • Automate
• Resource
• Budgeting & Hierarchies • Regular Reviews
Forecasting • Educate Teams
• Cost Management • Feedback Loop
• Optimization Tools • Transparent Reporting
• Showback & • Manual Allocation • Integrate with FinOps
Chargeback practices

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 AWS ACCOUNTS
KEY ELEMENTS
• Account Creation • Service Limits

• Billing & Cost Management • Account Strategies

• Consolidated Billing &

• Single Account Strategies
Organizations

• Isolation of Resources • Multi-Account Strategies

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 AWS ACCOUNTS
COST MGMT. CONSIDERATIONS
• Resource Isolation and
• Granularity & Visibility Optimization

• Consolidated Billing with AWS • Implement Service Control

Organizations Policies

• Budgets & Allocations • Identity & Access Management

• Cost Anomaly Detection • Shared Savings Benefits

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 AWS ACCOUNTS
COMMON SEPARATION CRITERIA
• Environment Isolation • Blast Radius Reduction

• Security Boundaries • Customized IAM Policies

• Cost Tracking & Allocation • Billing & Payment Flexibility

• Organizational Structure • Operational Independence

• Regulatory & Compliance • Application or Project Lifecycle

• Resource & Service Limits • Vendor or Client Isolation

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 AWS ORGANIZATIONS
PURPOSE BEST PRACTICES
• Use Organizational Units
• Centralized Management (OUs)
• Implement Least Privilege
• Consolidated Billing with SCPs
• Service Control Policies • Centralized Log Mgmt.
• Dedicated Billing Account

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 SERVICE CONTROL POLICIES

USES & BENEFITS

1. Restrict Expensive Resources
2. Limit Regions
3. Control RIs & SPs
4. Enforce Tagging
5. Governance & Compliance
6. Prevent Mistakes

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 AWS CONTROL TOWER

LANDING ZONES USES & BENEFITS

Setup & Govern • Account Segregation COSTS
Secure, Compliant, Multi-Account
• Guardrails
AWS Environments • AWS Config
• Consistent Envt. Setup
• CloudTrail
• Centralized Logging
• CloudWatch
PROVIDES • Operational Efficiency • S3
• Easy way to setup new accounts • AWS Budgets & Cost
Explorer integration
• Pre-configured set of guardrails

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 TAGS
HELP ANSWER
QUESTIONS LIKE COST MANAGEMENT
GENERAL TAG USES
• Total Cost of App X TAG USES
• Forecast for March for Product Y • Resource Organization
• Cost Allocation
• Finance division 2023 spend • Automation Activities
• Identify unused resources
• Source of storage costs • Access Control
• Budgets & Alerts
• Highest cost services to target for • Cost Allocation
optimization COST MANAGEMENT
GENERAL TAG EXAMPLES
TAG EXAMPLES
• Classifying a workload
Tags help us organize our AWS • Cost Center or Profit Center
• Listing business criticality
resources in a way that makes • App or Workload Name
• Defining business unit
sense for our organization • Owner Info
• Documenting support team
• Business Unit
• Associating a cost center
• Product
Tag is just a Label • Defining a patching schedule
More flexible than accounts
Enables cost filtering & grouping analysis
KEY PRINCIPLES
Tag is a “Key/Value” pair • Standardized
• Color = Red • Enforced (Automated)
• Fruit = Banana • Audited
• Division = Finance • Maintained

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 COST ALLOCATION TAGS

COST ALLOCATION TYPES OF TAGS

Tags need to be • AWS Generated
enabled for Cost
Allocation o createdBy = myusername

Tags then get • User Defined

associated with our o BusinessUnit = Engineering
cost data

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 TAG ENFORCEMENT

AWS Organizations CloudFormation

Open Source & 3rd Party
• Service Control Polices • Infra As Code resource Tools
deployment tag
Ø Tag Usage enforcement • GorillaStack
• Tag Policies
• Cloud Custodian
Ø Tag Values
Service Catalog
• Graffiti Monkey
• “TagOptions” feature
IAM
• Tag-based Conditions

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 TAGS

• January 1st – Created EC2 instance

• March 1st – Tagged with “CostCenter = 123”

• April 1st – Run Report

Ø Report shows “CostCenter = 123” only
has EC2 charges for March 1st forward

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 TAG ALERTING

AMAZON EVENT BRIDGE AWS CONFIG

• Event streaming service • Inventory of Resource

(formerly CloudWatch configurations
Events) • Supports rules that check
• Alert us when non- compliance against our
compliant tags introduced standards.
that are not within our • “required-tags” built-in
policies Managed Rule

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 COST CATEGORIES

ENABLE…
1. Customized Reporting
2. Cost Allocation
3. Budgeting & Forecasting
4. Analyzing Trends
5. Shared Cost Splitting
6. Anomaly Detection

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 BILLING ALARMS WITH CLOUDWATCH

WHY USE CASES HOW IT WORKS

• AWS Billing Metrics
• Budget Management • Budget Monitoring
• CloudWatch Monitors
• Unexpected Costs • Cost Anomalies • CloudWatch Triggers
• Proactive • Alerted via SNS, Email,
Monitoring Text, etc.
• Peace of Mind • (Actuals only –
Not projection based)

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 PRINCIPLE: VISIBILITY

WHAT IS IT WHY IMPORTANT

• Informed Decision-Making
• Detailed Cost Breakdown • Budgeting & Forecasting
• Accountability
• Usage Patterns • Efficient Resource • Optimizing Cost Models
Utilization
• Allocation & Chargeback • Operational Efficiency
• Early Detection of Cost
• Anomalies & Irregularities Anomalies • Transparency & Reporting

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 COST EXPLORER
OTHER
KEY FEATURES COST MGMT USES
ANSWERS
• Visualization • 10 costliest Services last
• Trend Identification month?
• Forecasting • 5 costliest Projects last
• Cost Allocation
• Granularity quarter?
• Optimization • When did S3 become #1
• Data Filters
Recommendations cost factor?
• Built-in Reports
• Tracking Savings • Reserved Instance
• Custom Reports Savings amount this year?

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 COST ANOMALY DETECTION

CHALLENGES / RISKS MONITOR TYPES

Automatic pattern
• Service Monitor
• More people typically deploy recognition, reducing
resources in the cloud • Linked Account Monitor
false-positive alerts. • Cost Category Monitor
• Wide variety of options • Cost Allocation Tag Monitor
• Many costly configurations
possible
• Misconfigurations
AWS Budgets service uses ALERT OPTIONS
• Complex Options a static threshold. Unusual • Immediate
• Automatic Scaling event spend under that threshold • Daily Summary
• Variety of pricing models – no alert. • Weekly Summary

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 COST & USAGE REPORT

USES & BENEFITS

• Customization & Flexibility • Budgeting & Forecasting

• Usage Patterns • RI Analysis

• Advanced Analytics • Recommendations for SPs

• Cost Allocation • Anomaly Detection

• Showback & Chargeback • Data-Driven Decisions

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 CLOUD INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARDS
DASHBOARDS
FEATURES / BENEFITS
• CUDOS
• Cost Intelligence • Easy to deploy • Track progress over time

• KPI • Easy to use • Customizable

• Trusted Advisor • 100’s pre-built visuals • Showback & Chargeback

• Compute Optimizer • Wide audience • Track Savings Plans & Ris

• Cost Anomaly
• Optimization • Serverless & Native
• Trends

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 COST OPTIMIZATION PILLARS
• Right-Sizing
o Aligning resources with actual needs
o Trusted Advisor
• Increasing Elasticity
o Dynamic Scaling to meet actual needs
o Autoscaling & Elastic Load Balancer
• Right Pricing Model
o Savings Plans, Reservations, Spot Instances
• Optimizing Storage
o Right Storage Type & Tier
• Measure & Continuously Improve
o Monitor Metrics & Targets over Time
o Cost & Usage Report, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor

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 STANDARDS, DECISION TREES, PLAYBOOKS
Driven by
• Performance
Type of Storage • Data Format Region
• Block Storage (Disk) • Protocol • Cost
• Object Storage • Persistence • Proximity to users
• File Storage • Read/Write Patterns • Proximity to apps
• Marketplace options? • Volume • Data Residency
• Scaling Needs
• Cost

• SSL (in transit) • Access Patterns

• Encryption (at rest) • Frequency of Access

• Availability & Resiliency

• Retrieval Speed
• 99%, 99.9%, 99.99%
• Millis? Mins? Hours?
• Single-AZ, Multi-AZ, Multi-Region

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 M ANAGED S ERVICES

Examples of IaaS vs. PaaS PaaS Choose PaaS if:

Database Reduced management overhead Focus on App Development

• MySQL on Linux VM Reduced labor costs Rapid Deployment & Scaling
• Amazon RDS Pay as you go pricing Simplified Costs

Web Server
• IIS on Windows VM
• Elastic Beanstalk / Lightsail IaaS Choose IaaS if:

Caching More control available Need more Control or Custom

• Redis on Ubuntu Linux More customization possible Complex Configurations
• MemoryDB for Redis Cost based on usage Infrastructure Expertise

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 S POT I NSTANCES

• Any interruptible or non-

timebound workload • Interruption Handling – 2 mins
• Restartable or • Diversify Instance Types
Reprocessable work • Diversify Availability Zones
• High Perf Compute or • Spot Fleet to mix pricing models
Batch • Service integrations
• Dev/Test • Spot Historic Price Analysis
• Stateless Apps

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 AWS TRUSTED ADVISOR COST RECOMMENDATIONS

DETECTS EXAMPLES KEY POINTS

• Unused • Idle RDS DBs • Regularly Review

Resources • Underutilized EBS Volumes Recommendations

• Unassociated Elastic IPs • Integrate with

• Underutilized CloudWatch
Resources • Lambda Timeouts/Errors
• Not Comprehensive
• Reservations • SQL CPU Reductions
Gaps • Sometimes
• Idle Load Balancers Overzealous

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 AWS BUDGETS
KEY FEATURES
• Customizable Budgets ACTIONS
• Scheduled Reports
• Alerts • Run an action on our behalf
• Actions • IAM Policies, SCPs, or EC2/RDS
• Ex: Deny EC2 deploys via IAM
COSTS
ALERT TRIGGERS
OTHER FEATURES • Creating Budgets – Free
• Actual Costs • Notifications/Alerts – Free
• Forecasted Costs • Updated every 8-12 hours • Action-enabled – Daily Fee
• Notify SNS, Email, SMS, Lambda • Reports – Delivery Fee
• Alert on Actuals or Forecasts
REPORTS • 5 weeks of usage to forecast
• Alert to Chatbot, Chime, Slack
• Sent routinely / regularly
• Dynamic Budget feature
• Email delivery
• Cost Explorer integration
• Each report delivery has a small
fee

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 AWS BUDGETS - EXAMPLES

BUDGET TYPES BUDGET USERS

• Monthly – Org Wide Spend • App Owner
• Monthly – Each App/Proj./Etc. • VP – Division
• Daily – RI & SP coverage • PM – Department
• Free Tier usage • Finance Managers

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 AWS SERVICE CATALOG
USES / BENEFITS
• Standardized Templates • Operational Reduction

• Version Control • Cost-Effective Resources

• Limit Resource Sprawl • SPs & RIs Integration

• Consistent Tagging • Limit Regions

• AWS Budgets integration • Reduce Shadow IT

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 IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT
COST USES / BENEFITS

• Granular Access Control • Auditing with CloudTrail

• Limit Resource Creation
• IAM Roles Temp. Creds.
• Budget & Cost Perms.

• Enforce Tagging • AWS Orgs. Integration

• Limit Regions
• RI & SP Permissions

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 QUOTAS
COST USES / BENEFITS
• Cost Control

• Prevent Resource Sprawl

• Governance & Compliance

• Forecasting & Planning

• Mistake Protection

• Access Control / Monitoring

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 COST OPTIMIZATION – WELL ARCHITECTED
COST USES / BENEFITS

• Attributing Expenditures • Optimize Over Time

• Cost-Effective Resources • Cloud Economics

• Scale to Fit • Provisioning Just Right

• Analyze Expenditures • Measure Efficiency

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