Mastering AWS Cost Reduction: Mistakes That Skyrocket Your Bill

<p>The ability of AWS to provide almost infinite resources is great and you shall never consider resource constraints when building cloud native applications. However, there&rsquo;s the economic factor and no one has infinite budgets. I recently reduced my company&rsquo;s AWS bill for a set of accounts by 65% which is around $60,000 in cost savings annually. You don&rsquo;t need fancy software or tooling to manage your cost since AWS already provides a number of services to keep your costs under control. The cost drivers are almost always the same with most accounts and companies.</p> <p>A highly recommended approach is to review AWS cost at least on a quarterly basis, ideally on a monthly basis. This does not just include reviewing the bills, but also digging into the services with the AWS Cost Explorer. While the Cost Explorer gives you a good insight into what drives your cost, it doesn&rsquo;t provide solutions on how to lower them. For many of the cost drivers, you&rsquo;ll often have to analyze the service usage using CloudWatch. Let&rsquo;s look at these cost drivers and how you can counter them. We&rsquo;ll also look at many cost drivers that you won&rsquo;t find in the official AWS documentation or recommendations.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@jankammerath/mastering-aws-cost-reduction-mistakes-that-skyrocket-your-bill-6f5031013ed0">Visit Now</a></p>
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