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Welcome to our guide on reducing your AWS bill.

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AWS Services

Billing

• Reserved Instances / Compute Savings Plans
• Budgets
• Budget Reports
• Cost Anomaly Detection
• Compute Optimiser
• Cost Optimization Hub
• AWS Partner

CloudFront

• Price class
• Pricing discount
• Logging
• Cache length

CloudTrail

• Retention
• Management / data

CloudWatch

• Log group retention
• Log group type
• Alarms (relevance, stale)
• Dashboards

EC2

• Decommissioning

• Rightsizing

• Scheduling

• Type / generation

• Elastic IPs (EIP)

• Auto scaling

• EBS volume type

• EBS volume size

• EBS IOPS

• EBS available volumes

• EBS snapshots & AMIs

ECR

• Lifecycle rule

ECS

• Utilisation
• Scheduling

EFS

• Lifecycle rules
• Data volume

ELB

• Active
• Low requests
• Target groups

EMR

• Instance generation
• Idle clusters

KMS

• Customer managed keys

OpenSearch

• Nodes

RDS

• Active
• Instance rightsizing
• Instance type/generation
• Scheduler
• Multi-AZ
• Snapshots
• Storage autoscaling
• Extended support

Route 53

• Hosted zones
• TTL

S3

• Lifecycle rules

VPC

• NAT Gateways
• Cross zone traffic
• Data egress
• Site-to-site VPNs
• VPC Endpoint

Cloud Intelligence Dashboards

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