Maximizing Business Value through Cost Optimization with the Well-Architected Framework
summary
Run a Well‑Architected cost assessment that flags ten high risks and fix the top five: create a cross‑functional cost team, enable AWS Cost Explorer and the AWS Cost and Usage Report for hourly and granular data, and publish budgets with alerts to avoid surprise bills. Use tagging, an account structure via AWS Organizations, infrastructure‑as‑code and decommissioning policies so test environments can be shut down (up to 75% savings claimed), share reservations org‑wide, and measure workload metrics against cost targets.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 3:41AWS Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization
- 6:56AWS Well-Architected Tool
- 9:03Cloud Financial Management
- 11:38AWS Cost Explorer
- 15:34Usage Governance
- 18:27AWS Organizations
- 22:02Amazon Cloud Watch Metrics Dashboard
- 24:30Tagging
- 25:08Decommissioning Resources
- 26:00Evaluating Service Costs
- 29:08Summary
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