The Essentials of AWS Cost Control
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The document details a presentation by Paul Wakeford on AWS cost control strategies at a cloud efficiency meetup. Key topics include creating a cost control culture, identifying and measuring resource usage through tagging, reducing consumption, and designing for cost efficiency. It also emphasizes the use of various AWS tools and third-party services for monitoring costs and highlights the importance of establishing baselines and ongoing training.
The Essentials of AWS Cost Control
- 1. CLOUD EFFICIENCY AND OPTIMISATION MEETUP - MAY 2019 THE ESSENTIALS OF AWS COST CONTROL Paul Wakeford - Vault Solutions Pty Ltd
- 2. ABOUT Paul Wakeford Cost Architect Vault Solutions Pty. Ltd. www.vaultsolutions.info linkedin.com/in/paulwakeford github.com/paulwakeford @paulwakeford
- 3. >> Creating a cost control culture >> Identifying and measuring usage >> Reducing usage >> Designing for cost >> Non-functional cost reductions >> Next steps What to Expect
- 4. >> Cost control culture In brief.. ...what's your goal and how will you get there.. and stay there? Don't be 'the cost control person' in your company. (That's my job!). Create a team. Create standards, promote best practices.
- 5. >> Identifying & measuring usage Tagging Baselines Monitoring Alerting Tools
- 6. Tagging Tagging standard: Match your company, IT or project structure Crowd source it - get buy in Untagged resource policy Document it and set a start date Tag enforcement: Easier if you crowd sourced Use autotagging and missing tag detection tools - bit.ly/awsbillingtools You may need a 'tagging policeman'
- 7. Metrics Alert on variationMeasure baseline Measure actual
- 8. Cost Reports: (very) detailed cost files for further analysis (Athena, QuickSight, others...) AWS tools Cost Explorer: graphs Budgets: alerts
- 9. Third-party tools Many paid SaaS cost monitoring & reporting services available: CloudCheckr, Cloudability, CloudHealth, Cloud Conformity etc Free tools: Teevity (ICE fork), Komiser Check Github for other tools See bit.ly/awsbillingtools
- 10. >> Reducing usage Reducing consumption Using all available levers
- 11. EVERYTHING is consumption based: Instance based: Instance hours Instance type (size) Region Lifecycle Add storage, data transfer, software licensing Reduce consumption = reduce cost
- 12. Other services - follow the same principles: Reduce hours of usage, Reduce size of data, Utilise all service offerings Everything has a dial or lever to scale up or down. Consider automation.
- 13. >> Designing for cost >> Designing for cost
- 14. Solution priority Serverless Instance basedContainer based Event driven Secure Low management Higher resource utilisation Microservices Standardisation Traditional workloads High perf High isolation
- 15. More levers...
- 16. >> Non-functional cost reductions Reserved instances Account consolidation Enterprise support Other options
- 17. Reserved instances.... Instance options •Region and AZ •Instance size •OS •Tenancy •Convertible •Scheduled RIs Payment options •1 or 3 years •Amount of upfront payment Very complicated, mistakes are expensive. Use tooling.
- 19. Higher volumes Consider Enterprise support >>Access to CO BDMs >>Technical and sales account managers Contact AWS Sales for very high usage levels Look at currency options
- 20. >> Review & next steps • Establish your baseline, monitor, alert • Create a cost control culture • Reduce existing usage • Consider cost in new designs • Evaluate tools • Consider using a partner for dedicated cost resourcing • Training: www.vaultsolutions.info/awscostcontrol • Consider Enterprise support • Stay up-to-date
- 21. Athena – serverless SQL for S3 Aurora Serverless – serverless SQL databases DynamoDB autoscaling S3 Select and Glacier Select EC2 Fleet Per-second billing for EC2 Disabling vCPUs for EC2 RDS Stop/Start New Spot billing mechanics AMD and ARM instance types Managed blockchain EC2 and RDS recommendations in Cost Explorer Instance flex for EC2 and RDS Credit and discount sharing options Spot hibernation Expansion of tagging support T2 Unlimited Cost Explorer and Price List APIs QuickSight flexible billing S3 intelligent tiering Per second billing for RDS AppSync - serverless GraphQL
- 22. Paul Wakeford Cost Architect Vault Solutions Pty. Ltd. www.vaultsolutions.info linkedin.com/in/paulwakeford github.com/paulwakeford @paulwakeford >> Questions?