How to reduce your cloud cost?

AWS Cost?

AWS enables you to take control of cost and continuously optimize your spending with modern technology and scalable applications. Cloud computing reduces a massive amount of CAPEX for the on-premises infrastructure and administrative cost, but you will face cost creep if you don’t manage and control them. (At least, you can’t use more if you have a limited number of servers in your server room)

AWS Cost Optimisation 101

Although you can find a lot of cloud cost reduction strategies, approaches, etc. the basic concept is the same.

Don’t spend more than how much you need

This looks easy, but it most certainly is not.

Where I can see my cost

Billing and Cost Management Console

The billing will let you know what service you are consuming and you can segment the billing by assigning tags based on the project, department, services.

AWS Cost Explorer

The cost explorer will let you know the usage, costs, ROI, etc. on the AWS services.

This is a really powerful view in which you can see every spend on AWS and you can filter and sort the cost. (It support tagging to filter the cost out, which is truly…