| TCO | Total Cost of Ownership
includes direct and indirect costs |
| AWS Application Discovery Service | plan migration to AWS |
| AWS Price List | API catalog of products and prices for AWS services |
| AWS Pricing Calculator | estimates AWS fees and charges |
| How to reduce your TCO | minimise capital expenditures
utilise reserved instances
right size your resources |
| AWS Budgets | set custom budgets that alert you when you exceed them |
| AWS Cost and Usage Reports | detailed report of where you are spending your money |
| AWS Cost Explorer | visualise costs over time
forecast spending |
| Cost Allocation Tags | tag resources
allows you to track costs in the cost allocation report |
| AWS Organisations | centrally manage multiple AWS accounts
consolidate many into one
savse money combining billing |
| AWS Control Tower | Ensure accounts conform to company policies
AWS organisations |
| AWS Systems Manager | Manage your resources on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments
automatic patching and updates |
| AWS Trusted Advisor | provides recommendations for best practices.
evaluates your account by using checks.
included in business support plan upwards
basic checks in developer |
| AWS License Manager | Manage on premises or AWS licences
Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, IBM |
| AWS Certificate Manager | Provision and manage free public SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and connected resources |
| SCP | Service control policy |
| Service control policies | restrict permissions for all accounts in an organisation |
| Trusted Advisor Recommendations | EC2 ports
S3 bucket permissions
MFA on root account
IAM password policy
RDS public snapshots
Service usage > 80% over limit
Exposed access keys
CloudFront content optimisation
cost optimisation |
| Types of AWS Budgets | Cost
Usage
RI utilisation
RI coverage
Savings plans utilisation
Savings plans coverage |
| Cost Budget | how much you spend on a service
receive an alert if you exceed or are forecasted to exceed |
| Usage budget | how much you use one or more services
receive alert if you exceed or are forecasted to exceed |
| EC2 utilisation budget | receive alert if usage falls below threshold
informs if RI or savings plan is under utilised |
| EC2 coverage budget | receive alert if number of instance hours falls below threshold
lets you know how much of your usage is covered by a your savings plan / reserved instance |
