Module Overview

• Gaining AWS cost and usage awareness (historical, current, forecast)
• Using control mechanisms for cost management
• Optimizing your AWS spend and usage
• Lab 6: Capstone Lab for CloudOps

AWS Billing and Cost Management

• Billing dashboards — spend summary, top services by spend
• AWS Cost Explorer — visualize, filter, and forecast spend
• New: Cost Explorer Natural Language Query, powered by Amazon Q
• AWS Cost and Usage Reports — per-resource, per-hour granularity

Cost Control Mechanisms

Detect, notify, and act on unexpected cost or usage patterns.

AWS Budgets

• Create alerts or take action when costs/usage exceed set levels
• Notifications when resource utilization drops below defined thresholds
• Track current spend against your budgeted amount

AWS Trusted Advisor — Cost Checks

• Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances & low-utilization instances
• Underutilized Amazon EBS volumes
• Idle Amazon RDS DB instances
• More accurate unused NAT Gateway checks (now powered by Compute Optimizer)

AWS Compute Optimizer

• Compares and recommends effective resources for your workloads
• Lowers costs while improving performance
• Now supports 162 new EC2 instance types and idle recommendations for 6 more resource types

Instance Generation Upgrade Example

Newer generations often cost less while performing better.

Module Summary

Lab 6: Capstone Lab for CloudOps · Duration: 55 minutes