AWS: Controlling Cost

2h 36mIntermediate2021-01-20

Authors

Lynn Langit

Cloud Architect

Course details

Learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools and best practices to understand, forecast, and control service costs. This course covers core AWS tools, such as CloudWatch billing alarms, consolidated billing with AWS Organizations, and the AWS billing dashboard tools. Instructor Lynn Langit shows how to control costs through key services, such as EC2, S3, RDS, and more. She also reviews architectural decisions related to cost control drawn from her own professional experiences.

Skills covered

Project Management SkillsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonCloud ServicesProject ManagementCloud PlatformsCloud ComputingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Control your costs on AWS
02 - About using cloud services

1. Approaches to Cloud Service Cost Control

03 - Why control AWS service costs
04 - Who should manage AWS cost control
05 - Understanding AWS free tier
06 - AWS Billing Dashboard and AWS Budgets
07 - AWS Organizations - Consolidate costs
08 - Other AWS Biling tools - Tagging
09 - AWS Config tag rules
10 - Tag resource groups and cost categories
11 - Billing and preferences

2. Control Costs by Service

12 - AWS service types
13 - File storage costs - S3
14 - Compute costs - EC2 instance types
15 - Compute costs - EC2 purchase types
16 - Control compute costs - Lambda
17 - Control database costs - RDS
18 - Control database costs - DynamoDB
19 - Start services with CloudFormation

3. Cost Management Tools

20 - Cost Explorer
21 - Cost and Usage Reports
22 - Budgets Reports
23 - Anomaly Detection
24 - Reservations
25 - Savings Plans

4. AWS Cost Control Tools

26 - CloudWatch billing alarms
27 - AWS Marketplace subscriptions
28 - AWS Service Catalog
29 - AWS EC2 Compute Optimizer
30 - Well-Architected cost control workload

5. Cost Control Scenarios

31 - Understand true cost
32 - Marketing website
33 - Dynamic website
34 - Internal business application
35 - Big data pipeline
36 - Other cost control tips

Conclusion

37 - Next steps to control costs