Cost Levers
- Rightsize underused compute, databases, and storage.
- Use Savings Plans or Reserved Instances for steady-state compute usage.
- Use Spot for fault-tolerant and interruptible workloads.
- Use lifecycle policies and storage classes for data with changing access patterns.
Visibility
- Cost allocation tags attribute spend to teams or workloads.
- AWS Budgets alert on forecasted or actual spend.
- Cost Explorer analyzes spend trends.
- CUR provides detailed billing data for custom analysis.
Practice Cost Optimization Questions
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