Cost Optimizing and Cost Monitoring

on AWS

Liron Dor

Technical Account Manager

Topics

Cost Optimization Tools and Best Practices.

Model and Track Spending.

How do you identify unused ELBs?

AWS Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations.

41 available checks in 4 categories.

Last 3 years, 2.6 million recommendations, Customers Reduced Costs by over $350M.

Available for Business Support and Enterprise Support.

Revisit Trusted Advisor.

Design For Elasticity

Design For Elasticity

Avoid Over Provisioning Resources.

Pay As You Go Model.

Use S3 Object Lifecycle Management.

Automate Your Elasticity.

Match Resources and Workload

Match Resources and Workload

Avoid Under Utilized Resources.

Verity of Resources:

EC2 - 38 Instance Type (Current Generation) in 9 Families.

Redshift – 4 instance Types in 2 Families.

RDS – 12 Instance in 3 Families (Depending on the type).

Use Trusted Advisor to Identify Low Utilization.

t2 - Burstable Performance Instances

t2Burstable vs. Fixed Performance Instances.

Bursts beyond baseline using CPU credits.

Web Servers, Development Machines, Small Databases.

t2.medium:

2 vCPU 4 GiB of Memory.

Baseline Performance: 40%.

c3.large sysbench

t2.medium sysbench

EC2 Instances Comparison

Instance vCPU Mem (GiB) Monthly On-Demand Costs*

Ideal use case

m3.medium 1 3.75 $ 49.05 General Purpose – Fixed Performance

c3.large 2 3.75 $ 76.86 Compute Optimized – Fixed Performance

t2.medium 2 4 $ 38.07 General Purpose – Burstable Performance

If t2 works for your workload:

~22% savings switching from m3.medium to t2.medium.

~50% savings switching from c3.large to t2.medium.

* - Linux costs in N. Virginia

Are you purchasing in the most cost-effective way?

EC2 Reserved Instances

Long Running Workloads with RIs.

1 – Year RIs - Up to 58% savings.

3 – Year RIs - Up to 75% savings.

3 RI plans: No Upfront, Partial Upfront, All Upfront.

Use Trusted Advisor for RI Recommendations.

EC2

EC2 Reserved Instances Utilization Reports

Other Reservation Options

RDS – Reserved Instances.

Redshift – Reserved Nodes.

Elastic Cache - Reserved Cache Nodes.

DynamoDB - Reserved Throughput.

Model and Track Spending

Tag Your Resources

Tagging BasicsCreate the Dimensions relevant to you

Tag all “Taggable” resources.

Many AWS services support customer-

defined tags including EC2, S3, and RDS.

Use the Tag Editor.

Cost Explorer Forecasts (Demo)

Budget (Demo)

Wrap - Up

Cost Optimization:

Trusted Advisor.

Design For Elasticity.

Match Resources and Workloads.

Long Running workloads with Ris.

Model and Track Spending:

Use Tagging.

Visualize your costs.

Plan and Track your budget.

Thank you