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Master AWS pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances. Learn the characteristics, benefits, and ideal use cases for each to effectively optimize your cloud costs and select the most appropriate pricing strategy for diverse workloads.
Deconstruct Amazon EC2 pricing components to optimize your cloud spend. Learn how instance type, Region, operating system, purchase option (On-Demand, Reserved, Spot), and data transfer each contribute to your overall EC2 costs.
Deconstruct Amazon S3 pricing factors to optimize your object storage costs. Learn how S3 expenses are calculated based on storage class, amount of data stored, data transfer (egress), and the number of requests made against your objects.
Master cost optimization for serverless architectures on AWS. Understand how pricing is calculated for AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and other serverless services based on invocations, compute duration, memory, and data transfer, and learn effective strategies to control your serverless spend.
Master the AWS Billing Dashboard, your central hub for monitoring and managing AWS costs. Learn to navigate its key features, including monthly bill summaries, cost breakdowns by service, and tools to track your spending, ensuring transparent financial oversight of your cloud resources.
Master AWS Cost Explorer, the powerful tool for visualizing, understanding, and managing your AWS costs and usage over time. Learn its key features for analyzing past spend, forecasting future costs, and identifying optimization opportunities across your AWS environment.
Master AWS Budgets, a powerful tool for proactive cost management. Learn to set custom cost and usage budgets, monitor your spending against predefined thresholds, and receive alerts when actual or forecasted costs exceed your limits, preventing bill shock and ensuring financial control.
Master AWS Cost Allocation Tags, a vital tool for organizing resources and gaining granular visibility into your cloud spend. Learn how to apply tags, activate them for billing, and use them to track costs by project, department, or environment for enhanced financial accountability.