9. Cost Optimization

Cost Explorer

visualize, forecast

AWS Budgets

alerts + actions

Cost Anomaly Detection

ML (free)

Cost & Usage Report

detailed CSV/Parquet

Pricing Calculator

estimate before deploy

Compute Optimizer

right-sizing recommendations

On-Demand

0% off

1y RI/SP

~30-50% off

3y RI/SP

~55-72% off

Spot

up to 90% off

Free tier

750 hrs t2.micro/month

Storage Cost Optimization: S3 lifecycle to Glacier

9. Cost Optimization

Storage Cost Optimization: EBS gp2 → gp3 (20% off)

9. Cost Optimization

Storage Cost Optimization: EBS Snapshot Archive (75% off, 90+ days)

9. Cost Optimization

Storage Cost Optimization: Intelligent-Tiering for unknown patterns

9. Cost Optimization

Storage Cost Optimization: Delete idle resources

9. Cost Optimization

Same-region private IP

FREE

Same-AZ private IP

FREE

Cross-AZ private IP

$0.01-0.02/GB

EC2 → S3 same region

FREE

EC2 → Internet

$0.09/GB

CloudFront → user

$0.085/GB

DX

$0.02-0.03/GB

Common saving strategies: VPC Endpoints (avoid NAT)

9. Cost Optimization

Common saving strategies: CloudFront caching (reduce origin)

9. Cost Optimization

Common saving strategies: ARM Graviton (~20% cheaper)

9. Cost Optimization

Common saving strategies: Right-size EC2 (Compute Optimizer)

9. Cost Optimization

Common saving strategies: Spot for batch

9. Cost Optimization

Common saving strategies: Reserved for steady workload

9. Cost Optimization