Episode 69 - Cost Optimisation Special

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat we are explored methods you can use to make a step change in optimizing cost in your AWS account, we aren’t talking powering off idle resources. We started the show remind listeners about our new Graviton processors in the form of the M6G, R6G and C6G. Currently in public preview meaning you can request access to these and if your workload can make use of an aarch64 architecture they can save you in the realm of 40% off your EC2 costs I then got a bit theoretical here. If you can’t measure it, then good luck managing it. I spoke about observability and monitoring as a key means to ensuring your systems are cost effective. You need an understanding of the cost to serve and only then can you start to drive down cost. We also spoke about Spot Instances which lets you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand price which is something to hang your hat on. You can consume spot from Fargate ECS, EC2, Application Load Balancer, Elastic Map Reduce, CloudFormation. Data Pipleline and AWS Batch We then spoke about the AWS Well Architected Framework. Its our best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud and we honed in on the cost optimisation pillar before riffing over some tips from a field SA on what they look when trying to trim costs out of an account.