Automating cost optimization within operations
AWS Trusted Advisor is a management tool that provides visibility into your AWS accounts to see how well they are adhering to best practices across five categories – cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. We will stay within the bounds of cost optimization since that is the focus of our discussion.
Important note
Trusted Advisor requires you to engage in Business- or Enterprise-level support, the latter of which can cost you $15,000 (USD) per month. However, for some organizations, the benefits of having elevated support and response times may outweigh these financial costs. Be sure to gauge what the right level of support is for your organization.
Trusted Advisor provides recommendations for ways to help reduce costs for your AWS accounts. These can be recommendations to delete unused and idle resources or to use reserved capacity. The following screenshot shows the Cost optimization...
