Cost Optimization and Sustainability in the Cloud on AWS

Discover, Explore, and Apply design approaches and cost optimization techniques for your AWS solutions to help save on cloud costs, and benefit the environment

Cost Optimization and Sustainability 

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional who wants to use AWS in a way that's good for your budget and the planet, this collection of resources provides the hands-on tools that can make a difference.

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Why Engineers Hold the Keys to Smart Cloud Spending

Jeff Blume
Learn how engineers play a crucial role in optimizing AWS cloud spending and explore common optimization levers and tools that you can use to save significant spend.
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AWS Cloud Account Fundamentals

Rohini Gaonkar
Discover key strategies for cost management and security, and lay a solid foundation for your cloud journey from the get-go.
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Billing and Cost Optimizations Essentials

Cobus Bernard
An essential guide to billing and cost optimizations in the cloud.
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Building Sustainable Cloud Solutions with 3 Green Design Principles

Daisy Riley
Explore AWS Account setup fundamentals and best practices in one comprehensive blog!
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Cost Optimization  

Learn how to effectively use AWS tools and services to minimize expenses and maximize value. Our insightful blogs will provide you with actionable strategies to smartly manage your cloud spending, ensuring you get the most out of every dollar invested in AWS.

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Shift Cloud Costs Left: What Does It Really Mean?

Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini
What does it really mean to shift cloud costs left, and how to push for a engineering led FinOps practice
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Looking Beyond Technology In FinOps - How organisations need to address the People Side

Ethan Sumner
Organisations adopting FinOps often focus on purely the technology element wether it's procuring a tool or implementing automation. In the blog, we dive into the people side of implementing FinOps and why it's critical to FinOps Success
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Balance Performance and Cost: Select the Right AWS Storage Solution for Your Applications

Pranshu Mishra
Storage class and tools are complex and challenging. The wrong choice can lead to performance issues, reduced scalability, and higher costs. Here's how to choose the right one.
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Optimizing Performance and Cost with Multi-AZ Architecture: Guidelines for Multi-Account Environments

Hechmi Khelifi
Learn how to use availability zones (AZs) in a multi-account, multi-VPC environment that you can use to optimize AZ utilization, reduce latency and costs, and ensure the availability and performance of your applications in AWS.
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Cost Conscious Disaster Recovery

Steven Evers & Samantha Wylatowska
A disaster recovery plan plays a vital role in restoring business continuity when a system fails. Enhance your ability to bounce back from catastrophic events and restore business continuity using the cost-conscious Pilot Light strategy. This blog will be valuable for IT Managers, Disaster Recovery Specialists, and Cloud Architects who are responsible for developing and implementing disaster recovery plans within their organizations.
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5 ways to cost optimize your Infrastructure as Code

Steph Gooch
Learn five code snippets that you can add to your existing AWS CloudFormation templates to prevent cost waste. This blog will be highly beneficial for Cloud Engineers and DevOps professionals who regularly work with AWS CloudFormation.
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Sustainability  

Reducing your cloud costs is not only better for your bank account, it’s better for the environment. Learn how to make your cloud projects not only efficient, but also environmentally friendly, by understanding the impacts of the services you’re using, quantifying these impacts throughout the workload lifecycle, and applying design principles and best practices. Learn more about AWS Sustainability in the Cloud

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Identifying proxy metrics for sustainability optimization

Pooja Karnik & Raman Pujani
Learn how to extract, baseline, and track proxy metrics using a sample architecture for sustainability optimization.
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Understanding Sustainable Data Management 

Sandipan Bhaumik
This blog highlights the inefficiencies caused by old-school data management methods leading to environmental harm and explains the mental models behind adopting the practices.
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Sustainability at the core of data strategy

Sandipan Bhaumik
This blog highlights how to designing a data strategy that implements technology and deploys workloads with sustainability as a core principle.
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Building a Sustainable Data Management Practice

Sandipan Bhaumik
This blog highlights the six steps you can implement to operate the practice in an ongoing basis.
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Hands-on Tutorials  

Learn how to utilize AWS tools and features to optimize costs while adhering to sustainability best practices.

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Tidy Your Bedroom: Identify Unused Resources

Stephen Howell
Discover how to find unneeded cloud resources easily with AWS Resource Explorer so you’re only paying for what you actually use. This tutorial is tailored for both students and experienced developers, ensuring you only pay for the resources you truly need.
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Run Kubernetes Clusters for Less with Amazon EC2 Spot and Karpenter

Christian Melendez
DevOps engineers and cloud architects can help reduce computing costs by using Spot Instances for Kubernetes data plane nodes. Learn how to run Kubernetes clusters for up to 90% off with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, and Karpenter.
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Building Go Applications For AWS Graviton

Tyler Jones
Developers can migrate their Go application from x86-based Amazon EC2 instances to ARM64-based Graviton EC2 instances to achieve both higher application sustainability and lower costs.
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Building Rust Applications For AWS Graviton

Tyler Jones
Developers can migrate their Rust application from x86-based Amazon EC2 instances to ARM64-based Graviton EC2 instances to achieve both higher application sustainability and lower costs.
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Manage Security and Costs Across the Enterprise With AWS Organizations

Sophia Parafina
Learn how to use AWS Organizations to organize and manage user accounts and cloud resources for security and cost control. This blog is well-suited for IT Managers, CTOs, and Security & Compliance Officers in enterprise organizations.
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Videos  

ON-DEMAND VIDEO

Build On Live | Cost Optimization

Improve your resource utilization and save your coin during Build On Live | Cost Optimization! Watch the livestream with hosts @darkosubotica & @awssteph as they are joined by expert guests who can help you identify where you’re spending the most, and how to cut costs on future AWS bills.

 Build On Live | Cost Optimization
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AWS Cost Optimization series.

Learn how to reduce your AWS costs by implementing cost optimization best practices. These videos are designed to help developers understand how the cost optimization tools work and how to build them in your accounts in less than 5 minutes..

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