How to Drive Economic Value Through Cost Management and Optimisation
summary
Explains concrete cost actions: use the Well-Architected tool and labs plus cloud financial management to measure, get an improvement plan, and train finance and ops; use Savings Plans 1 or 3 year commitment and expect discounts applied top‑down across accounts; buy commitments in a non‑consuming account (purchase in payer account) to maximize allocation; select the lowest sustained usage line, target nine‑month payback, buy increments (half or quarter), and expect examples like 30 x1e.large at 100% saving ~$7k (≈38%).
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:26What is Cost Optimisation
- 1:03Current State of Cost Optimisation
- 1:51What do we need to focus on
- 3:16Stopgap procedures
- 3:48WellArchitected
- 6:50Why Well Architected
- 8:11Well Architected Walkthrough
- 9:57Compute Savings Plans
- 11:30Discount Allocation
- 12:54Valid Recommendations
- 14:30Good Recommendations
- 17:16Savings Plan Dashboard
- 18:41Savings Plan View
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