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Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
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Amazon Web Services — COST08-BP03 Implement services to reduce data transfer costs - Cost Optimization Pillar
Gateway VPC endpoints have no hourly charges, and support Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB.
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Amazon Web Services — Amazon EC2 – Secure and resizable compute capacity – AWS
Per-second billing removes the cost of unused compute time from your bill. This particularly helps workloads that run over irregular time periods.
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Amazon Web Services — Optimize EC2 costs with AWS Compute Optimizer right sizing | AWS Compute Blog
A good candidate for Graviton adoption is a workload running on Linux or BSD, built either using open-source components or source code that you control.
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Amazon Web Services — COST08-BP02 Select components to optimize data transfer cost - Cost Optimization Pillar
Use metering and reporting tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, CUDOS Dashboards, or CloudWatch to understand data transfer cost of your workload.
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Amazon Web Services — Compute Savings Plans and Reserved Instances - Savings Plans
Savings Plans give you the flexibility to use the compute option that best suits your needs at low prices, without having to perform exchanges or
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Amazon Web Services — Managing your costs with AWS Budgets - AWS Cost Management
you could automatically apply a custom IAM policy that denies you the ability to provision additional resources within an account.
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Amazon Web Services — Reserved Instances for Amazon EC2 overview - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Reserved Instances are not physical instances, but rather a billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account.
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Amazon Web Services — Analyzing your costs and usage with AWS Cost Explorer - AWS Cost Management
You can view data for up to the last 13 months, forecast how much you're likely to spend for the next 18 months, and get
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Amazon Web Services — Cost optimization - Amazon Simple Storage Service
S3 Intelligent-Tiering to automatically optimize costs for data with unknown or changing access patterns.