Keeping costs down: understanding how to save money and make cost-effective decisions
As you just saw, there were many components and configurations we had to implement in order to build a load-balanced solution in AWS. As we grow our AWS infrastructure and implement more solutions, we should also keep an eye on our bill. Although we can utilize the free tier for now, production applications will likely need more powerful instances than what the free tier will provide, and the free tier itself won’t last forever. Not only that, but we should also know how to check how our bill is trending to make sure we don’t accidentally implement something that is expensive or waste money by running something we no longer need.
In this section, we’ll explore some concepts around billing. Although it’s beyond the scope of this chapter to do a complete deep dive into the world of billing, the subsections that follow will provide you with essential advice to help prevent...
