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Cut Down Your Data Transfer Costs

Data Transfer Costs contribute upwards of 30% to the total cost. For effective AWS billing and cost management , try architecting or re-architecting your frameworks in a way so that the data transfer across various AWS regions or availability zones, is minimum… read more

Discard Assets That Are More of Liabilities

Managing your AWS resources is an important step to cloud cost management . Detach and discard unused, obsolete resources. Also, upgrade your first-generation instances to the current generation... read more

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Rightsize your Resources/Instances

Choose the right instance type for your workloads and try to keep its utilization above 80% to get the most out of your application running on the AWS cloud. Leverage Cloud Management tools like Centilytics that gives you actionable insights and recommendations on how & what you should rightsize in your cloud in addition to near-real-time performance and AWS billing analytics... read more

Delete Orphaned Snapshots

Your EBS snapshots are potential elements of AWS cost management . They remain on S3 and keep on racking up monthly charges if not monitored regularly. Snapshots that have no attached volumes to it are good contenders for deletion unless they are required for creating new EBS volumes in future... read more

“Reserved Instances” is your first big step to AWS Cost Optimization

Reserved Instances (RIs) are one of the most perplexing yet a great option for AWS Cost Optimization. Reserving your most utilized instances for a time period of 1 year or 3 years can save you up to 70-75% on what you pay for on-demand instances... read more