AWS Immersion: AWS Cloud Services and Infrastructure – Cost Optimization Deep Dive

What is Cost Optimization, and how can you optimize your AWS applications and environments for cost-effectiveness? Cost Optimization is a challenge for everyone.

AWS has many cost-effective compute services and pricing options that give you the ability to effectively manage your costs while still maintaining high performance and complete capacity needs to meet all of your business requirements.

In this course, we are going to deep dive into Cost Optimization and learn about Right-Sizing our services, cost savings of Reserved Instances, and cost savings of the spot market. We also go over how to monitor, track, and analyze our usage now and for the future for continual cost optimization with AWS tools and services to keep optimizing your environment over time along with how to avoid common mistakes.

We will also learn all about AWS Well-Architected Framework, how to structure your AWS account with AWS Organizations and billing, how to design your environment in a cost-conscious way to make sure your architectures match supply and demand and how to use different design patterns to reduces expenses, how to optimize your storage, and what actions you can take now to get started.

OBJECTIVES
We will cover how to use architectures that match supply and demand, cost effective compute services, AWS organizations and billing, and how to continually optimize your AWS environment and accounts over time.

We will discuss how to design cost-effective environments, how to use different design patterns to reduce spending, and how to architect your environment to match the supply and demand of your cloud resources. We will also take a deep dive into AWS tools and services that can help you optimize your applications, environments, and AWS accounts. By the end of this course you will have actions and next steps to take RIGHT NOW to get started optimizing your account and you will also be aware common mistakes to avoid along with how to develop ongoing cost awareness to keep optimizing your environment over time.