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Module 12 Cost Optimization: New Topics

This document outlines topics for a module on cost optimization in AWS, including strategies like reserved instances, spot instances, and storage classes. It provides links to presentations and walkthroughs for billing and cost management tools like the cost explorer, budgets, and reports. Assignments include creating a tagging system and forecasting EC2 demand and costs. References are included for trusted advisor best practices and cost optimization resources.

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Module 12 Cost Optimization: New Topics

This document outlines topics for a module on cost optimization in AWS, including strategies like reserved instances, spot instances, and storage classes. It provides links to presentations and walkthroughs for billing and cost management tools like the cost explorer, budgets, and reports. Assignments include creating a tagging system and forecasting EC2 demand and costs. References are included for trusted advisor best practices and cost optimization resources.

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Module 12 ­ Cost optimization 

 
New topics 
Top strategies for cost optimization 
Billing and cost management 
Other tools 
Assignments 
References 
 

New topics 
● Reserved instances EC2 & RDS:  
○ Module 12 Presentation [Slides 5­9] 
○ Walkthrough EC2 (Web console) 
○ Walkthrough RDS (Web console) 
● Spot instances: 
○ Spot instances product overview: ​
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/ 
○ Compare spot instance prices to on­demand/reserved prices 
○ Walkthrough EC2 (Web console) 
○ Walkthrough EMR (Web console) 

   
Top strategies for cost optimization 
Top 3 strategies 
● Avoid overprovisioning 
● Reserved instances 
● Spot instances 
 
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/optimizing­for­cost­in­the­aws­cloud­5­ways­to­f
urther­save­aws­summit­2012­nyc­jinesh­varia​
 [Slides 7­41] 
 
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/cost­optimisation­on­aws​  [Slides 9­15] 
 
Other strategies 
● S3 Storage classes 
● Offload to S3/Cloud Front/Cache 
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/cost­optimisation­on­aws​  [Slides 18­19] 
 
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/optimizing­for­cost­in­the­aws­cloud­5­ways­to­f
urther­save­aws­summit­2012­nyc­jinesh­varia​
 [Slides 58­61] 
Module 12 Presentation [Slides 10­11] 
 
 

   
Billing and cost management 
Walkthrough: Dashboard 
 
Walkthrough: Bill details 
● By service 
● By region 
● By operation/metric 
 
Walkthrough: Cost Explorer 
● Monthly spend + forecast 
● Monthly forecast by Service 
● Monthly spend by linked account 
● Month­to­date daily spend by service 
 
Walkthrough: Budgets 
● By type: service, linked account, tags, purchase type 
● Notifications/Alarms 
 
Walkthrough: Reports 
● EC2 Instance usage 
● AWS usage report 
● Create hourly report 
 
Walkthrough: Cost allocation tags   
Other tools 
 
Walkthrough: Trusted Advisor 
Walkthrough: Simple monthly calculator 
 
 
 

   
Assignments 
● Create a resource tagging system for your company/project based on an understanding 
of cost centers or budget heads 
● Forecast EC2 demand for your company/project and document plan for reserved, 
on­demand or spot instances, and also auto­scaling/instance types 
● Forecast the cost for the assignment above 
 
 

   
References 
 
Trusted advisor best practices 
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/best­practices/ 
 
Cost optimization on AWS 
● http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/cost­optimization­on­aws 
● http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/cost­optimisation­on­aws 
● http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/optimizing­for­cost­in­the­aws­cloud­5­w
ays­to­further­save­aws­summit­2012­nyc­jinesh­varia 
 
Spot instances 
● https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/spot­tutorials/ 
● https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/bid­advisor/ 
 
 

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