All Content tagged with Cost Optimization
The cost optimization pillar focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs. Key topics include understanding spending over time and controlling fund allocation, selecting resources of the right type and quantity, and scaling to meet business needs without overspending.
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I just saw the announcement at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ecs-announces-ipv6-only-support/
I asked the same question 2 years ago and it was not possible at the time.
When right-sizing an EC2 workload, I often see recommendations to simply move to a newer or more cost-efficient instance family.
However, for a production workload with relatively stable CPU and memor...
### Background
We run an Aurora Serverless v2 cluster (MySQL 8.4, single writer instance, no reader) in eu-west-1 consolidating 13 schemas. The cluster serves a mix of ECS Fargate applications and tw...
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jdparsoEXPERT
published 22 days ago0 votes104 views
Many workloads still run Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) EBS volumes chosen years ago, before gp3 existed. Because io2 bills for every provisioned IOPS on top of storage, a volume provisioned far above its...
jdparsoEXPERT
published 22 days ago0 votes114 views
Amazon CloudWatch cost can grow quietly into a large share of the bill, and the drivers are rarely obvious: high-volume metric API requests, too many custom metrics, or verbose log ingestion, often fr...
Rosa LlorenteEXPERT
published a month ago0 votes153 views
Centralized traffic inspection with Transit Gateway and Network Firewall often inspects far more than necessary, and per-GB charges dominate at scale. This post shows how three Transit Gateway feature...
Fernandes Costa, JorgeEXPERT
published 2 months ago0 votes276 views
Most media customers deploy MediaLive with default ABR rendition ladders without visibility into which renditions viewers actually consume. This article provides a complete, deployable solution to ana...
H_ShahEXPERT
published 2 months ago4 votes225 views
This article presents a cost-optimization pattern using a dedicated AWS Direct Connect gateway with private virtual interfaces to bypass Transit Gateway for bulk storage traffic, while preserving the ...
Nikhil BhagatEXPERT
published 3 months ago0 votes379 views
This article compares the costs of seven common AWS networking architecture patterns against Amazon VPC Lattice alternatives. Each comparison includes detailed cost breakdowns with public pricing assu...
ShravanEXPERT
published 3 months ago0 votes245 views
Organizations adopting Amazon Bedrock at scale struggle to attribute model-invocation costs to specific teams, detect LLM-native anomalies like tool-call loops, and investigate spend spikes fast enoug...
Derek ZiehlEXPERT
published 3 months ago1 votes157 views
Customers evaluating the CloudFront Security Savings Bundle often ask whether activating mid-month means losing the discount on usage already incurred that month, or whether they should wait until the...
AWS OFFICIALUpdated 3 months ago0 votes465 views
This article outlines best practices for managing Reserved Instances (RI) and AWS Savings Plans commitments during AWS Organizations consolidations. It explains how to avoid costly billing gaps and us...