Ensuring Cost Optimization
In the previous section, we explored various AWS pricing models and how each of these models varies from service to service. In addition to this, you also learned about the importance of evaluating your costs and explored a few AWS services that help customers understand, evaluate, and forecast their spending on the cloud.
In this section and chapter, you will explore various options and opportunities that a solutions architect can undertake to ensure that costs are evaluated and optimized throughout the lifecycle of a particular workload. You will learn about certain design principles using the Well-Architected Framework (WAF), along with taking a deeper dive into how you can ensure governance, reporting, and monitoring of your costs using a combination of design strategies as well as AWS services and tools.
The following main topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Cost optimization principles
- Establishing governance with tagging
- Monitoring...
