Are your AWS bills higher than expected? Often, the issue lies not with the services you're running but with the pricing models you're using. This repository provides a collection of resources and strategies to help you slash your AWS bill, covering key topics such as:
- ๐ฐ Basic AWS cost management, including Budgets, the Free Tier, Cost Explorer, and Trusted Advisor
- ๐ฅ๏ธ Reducing EC2 costs with right-sizing, Spot Instances, Reserved Instances, and Autoscaling
- ๐๏ธ Cutting EBS and Snapshot costs using CloudWatch and Data Lifecycle Manager
- ๐ฆ Understanding S3 Storage Classes, S3 Analytics, LifeCycles Rules, and Intelligent Tiering
- ๐ Reducing VPC and Transfer Charges
- ๐ Using Caching Solutions like DynamoDB Accelerator, CloudFront, and ElastiCache to improve performance and reduce costs
- ๐ก Setting up a Savings Plan to easily realize huge savings on EC2, Lambda, and Fargate
- EC2 Pricing
- Cost Optimization Right-Sizing
- Cost Optimization Right-Sizing Whitepaper
- AWS Compute Optimizer Overview
- Reserved Instances Pricing
- Convertible RI Exchange
- Reserved Instances Scope
- Instance Size Flexibility for Reserved Instances
- AWS Instance Scheduler
- 10 Things You Can Do Today to Reduce AWS Costs
- DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
- CloudFront
- ElastiCache
- Develop a cost optimization plan for your AWS infrastructure
- Utilize the provided resources for ongoing cost management and optimization