Saving money in aws

save-money-aws.md

• Cell based architecture to reduce traffic over azs
• Ipv6 to remove nats
• Nat instances using alternat
• S3 bucket key enablement for encrypted buckets to reduce kms
• Savings plans instead of reserved instances
• Restricting services and regions by scps
• Aws budgets on cost and usage
• Using nlbs instead of albs
• Rightsizing
• Spot instances
• Removing intermittent resources monitored by aws config
• Tagging everything even s3 buckets by their name so they are searchable and costs are allocatable
• Use trusted advisor a lot
• Use cost optimization hub
• Enable compute optimizer
• Use arm instead of x86
• Using gp3
• For ipv4, use alternat for cheap nat instances instead of a nat gateway
• Talk to TAM about other cost saving approaches, EDP, etc
• Look into a 3rd party to manage RIs or spot
• Use private ips when possible
• Don’t use private ca
• Convert to containers to use ecs, eks, or lambda
• Shutdown extremely low utilization resources
• Cloud watch log groups all have an expiration
• Deploy cudos dashboard
• Enable cost split allocation tags
• S3 intelligent tiering
• VPC endpoints
• Remove old or non recent backups
• Lifecycle policies (ecr, s3, etc)
• Use latest resource instance family