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World Congress 2021 • Jun 29, 2021

6 tip to reduce your AWS bill

Sébastien Stormacq

Are idle instances secretly inflating your cloud costs? Discover six actionable engineering strategies to eliminate AWS money leaks and cut your compute bills by up to 90%.

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#1 about 6 min

Understanding the nature of on-demand cloud billing

The shift from fixed hardware costs to usage-based billing requires proactive usage management.

#2 about 4 min

Automating storage savings with S3 intelligent tiering

Lifecycle rules and access patterns dictate when data moves to cheaper storage classes to lower monthly costs.

#3 about 4 min

Scheduling automatic shutdowns for development and testing environments

Automatically stopping non-production database functionality and servers outside of working hours mitigates unused compute expenses.

#4 about 6 min

Leveraging EC2 spot instances for stateless workloads

Unused compute capacity offers substantial discounts for containerized and transient tasks capable of handling interruptions.

#5 about 7 min

Applying compute savings plans for baseline capacity pricing

Committing to a predictable compute expenditure threshold yields significant hourly discounts across a flexible range of resource types.

#6 about 4 min

Utilizing reserved instances for specialized database workloads

Purchasing upfront capacity terms offsets standard operating margins for sustained relational and clustered database configurations.

#7 about 8 min

Identifying and deleting orphaned AWS foundational resources

Locating detached storage volumes and static IP addresses via advisor tooling terminates completely unproductive residual infrastructure expenses.

#8 about 3 min

Configuring core billing dashboards and customized financial alerts

Setting predefined spending thresholds provides protective warnings against unintended experimentation costs running passively.

#9 about 5 min

Clarifying storage retrieval costs and automated shutdown risks

Automatic termination configurations introduce operational dangers that warrant careful consideration over basic notification solutions.

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