Cost optimization

Design principles

• Implement cloud financial management
• Adopt a consumption model
• Measure overall efficiency
• Stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy lifting
• Analyze and attribute expenditure

Tagging

Cost and usage visualization

Usage trends

Anomaly detection

EC2 rightsizing

Cost and usage reports (CURs)

The 5 Ws:

1. What does it cost = line_item_unblended_cost
2. Who used it = line_item_usage_account_id
3. When was it used = line_item_usage_start_date
4. Where was it used = product_region
5. Why the cost occurred = line_item_resource_id

Cloud Intelligence Dashboards

Workload efficiency

Trusted advisor

AWS Budgets

Visualizing cost

Cost and usage analysis

CUDOS Dashboard

TAO Dashboard

CID Dashboard