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Lasantha Sanjeewa Silva
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, powering everything from small startups to large enterprises. Its scalability, reliability, and vast service offerings make it the go-to cloud platform. However, with this flexibility comes a challenge-managing costs effectively.
Many organizations find their AWS bills climbing unexpectedly due to unused resources, over-provisioning, or lack of cost visibility. The good news is that AWS provides numerous tools and techniques to optimize usage and reduce expenses. In this article, weβll explore practical strategies to cut down your AWS cloud costs without compromising performance.
If you create resources through the AWS console, it can be difficult to understand which resources are generating charges.
Multiple regional resources.
Services make it easier to identify resources.
Tag Editor - You can search for resources that you want to tag across regions. Then, you can add, remove, or edit tags for resources in your search results.
Billing and Cost Management - Best place to identify billing and cost-related information, monitor resource usage, and make budgets.
Projects
Write a Python script for Shut Down Idle Resources. Unused development/test environments often keep running unnecessarily. Use AWS Instance Scheduler or automation scripts to stop non-production workloads during off-hours.
Final step: reach out to AWS support.
You can contact AWS support team and get support to cost related matters (Genuine Cases Only)
https://support.console.aws.amazon.com/support/home#/case/create?issueType=customer-service
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Many organizations find their AWS bills climbing unexpectedly due to unused resources, over-provisioning, or lack of cost visibility. The good news is that AWS provides numerous tools and techniques to optimize usage and reduce expenses. In this article, weβll explore practical strategies to cut down your AWS cloud costs without compromising performance.
If you create resources through the AWS console, it can be difficult to understand which resources are generating charges.
Tips to Reduce AWS Costs.
- Delete Unused Resources - Remove forgotten snapshots, unattached EBS volumes, and idle services. Use AWS Cost Explorer to identify hidden costs.
- Right-Size Instances - Reduce instance sizes where possibleβsmaller instances often meet workload needs at a lower cost.
- Leverage AWS Trusted Advisor - Review its recommendations across performance, security, and cost optimization.
- Choose the Right Instance Type - Select instance families tailored to your workload instead of defaulting to general-purpose ones.
- Enable Auto Scaling - Automatically adjust the number of instances based on demand, avoiding over-provisioning.
- Use Automated Scheduling - Tools like AWS Instance Scheduler shut down non-production environments during off-hours.
- Set Up Budget Alerts - Configure AWS Budgets to get notified when spending exceeds thresholds.
- Adopt Serverless Architectures - Use services like AWS Lambda to pay only for execution time instead of running full servers.
- Secure Your AWS Account: Prevent accidental misuse or unauthorized access that could lead to unexpected costs.
- Optimize Storage - Take advantage of S3 Intelligent-Tiering for automated storage cost optimization and use S3 Glacier for archiving rarely accessed data.
- Use Spot Instances for Flexible Workloads - For batch processing, analytics, or fault-tolerant applications, use Spot Instances (up to 90% cheaper).
- Consolidate Accounts with AWS Organizations - Use consolidated billing to take advantage of volume discounts. Centralize cost governance across teams.
- Monitor and Analyze with Cost Tools - Use AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Billing Alerts to track spending. Set alerts for unexpected spikes in costs. Enable AWS Trusted Advisor for real-time recommendations.
Best practices
- Create resources in one region, considering cost and latency. You can check latency using awsspeedtest
- Check AWS pricing. For example, you can check the pricing region-wise, the types of EC2 instances, and the prices of Spot instances. cloudprice
- Reduce the use of UI access. Always used IaCβCloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform. Examples- Delete all VPCs, but forget to delete the NAT gateway.
- Least privilege - give access only when required. Ex: if the developer doesn't give EKS cluster access. Example: create jenkins pipeline for AWS resource creation developers can easily used it.
- Learning and POC purposes always used free services. Example IAM, Default VPC etc.
- Create Budgets - It helps to get notifications of actual cost and budget alerts.
- Create Budget Reports - We can get a report based on the budget.
- Also, we can use AWS CLI to identify cost-related information.
Multiple regional resources.
for i in ap-south-1 us-east-1; do aws resourcegroupstaggingapi get-resources --region $i; doneEvery organization can save on AWS costs using cost optimization strategies.
Services make it easier to identify resources.
Tag Editor - You can search for resources that you want to tag across regions. Then, you can add, remove, or edit tags for resources in your search results.
Billing and Cost Management - Best place to identify billing and cost-related information, monitor resource usage, and make budgets.
Projects
Write a Python script for Shut Down Idle Resources. Unused development/test environments often keep running unnecessarily. Use AWS Instance Scheduler or automation scripts to stop non-production workloads during off-hours.
Final step: reach out to AWS support.
You can contact AWS support team and get support to cost related matters (Genuine Cases Only)
https://support.console.aws.amazon.com/support/home#/case/create?issueType=customer-service
- Select the Service as "Billing"
- Select the Category as "Payment Issue"
- Click on Additional Information
- Provide the proper Subject and your Justification in the description.
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