Articles on AWS pricing models, cost optimization techniques, Savings Plans, and free tier usage
Compare discount rates, flexibility, and break-even points between Savings Plans and Reserved Instances using actual pricing data, and learn how to choose the optimal commitment strategy based on your workload characteristics.
Discover how AWS's diverse billing granularities, including EC2's per-second billing, Lambda's per-millisecond billing, and S3's per-request billing, are measured, aggregated, and invoiced through the metering system.
We break down the three-tier pricing structure of On-Demand, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances through the lens of airline yield management and demand forecasting economics, explaining the rational reasons behind the complexity of AWS pricing.
Analyze resource-level detailed cost data with SQL in Athena and visualize it with QuickSight. This article covers CUR 2.0 data exports and how to build an analytics foundation.
Analyze CloudWatch metrics with ML to generate rightsizing recommendations for EC2, Lambda, EBS, and ECS Fargate. Learn about Graviton migration recommendations and improving accuracy with enhanced metrics.
Set alerts on both actual and forecasted values, and use Budget Actions to automatically apply IAM policies or stop instances. Integrate with Slack to raise cost awareness across the team.
Learn about resource rightsizing with AWS Compute Optimizer. Covers recommendations for EC2, Lambda, EBS, and ECS on Fargate, cost savings estimates, and implementation steps.
Visualize AWS spending with cost analysis by service, account, and tag, plus ML-based anomaly detection and cost forecasting. Learn how to optimize costs using Reserved Instance and Savings Plans purchase recommendations.
Learn how to set budgets, configure cost alerts, and automate actions with AWS Budgets. This article covers choosing budget types, comparing Budgets with Cost Explorer, and managing organization-wide budgets through Organizations integration.
Learn how to automatically detect cost anomalies with AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. Covers ML-based anomaly detection, monitor configuration, SNS/Slack notifications, and how it differs from Budgets.
A detailed comparison of AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (RI) covering mechanics, discount rates, and flexibility. Learn how to choose among Compute, EC2 Instance, and SageMaker Savings Plans and build an effective purchasing strategy.
Learn how to achieve up to 72% cost savings by choosing between Compute and EC2 Instance Savings Plans. This guide covers Cost Explorer recommendations and monitoring utilization and coverage.
Break down the mechanisms behind NAT Gateway's high hourly and data processing charges, and explore practical cost-reduction strategies including VPC endpoints, NAT instances, and IPv6 migration.
This article analyzes AWS's culture of passing scale benefits on to customers through price reductions, examining the economies of scale, hardware generation transitions, and competitive strategy behind it, with examples of major past price cuts and their impact.
We explain how the Working Backwards process and the Customer Obsession principle shape AWS service development. Learn about the innovation mechanism that starts with PR/FAQ documents and the process for incorporating customer feedback.
This article explains why S3 GET requests cost one-tenth of PUT requests by examining the internal costs of writes, erasure coding, and consistency guarantees, along with practical techniques for optimizing request charges.
This article explains the pricing structure where CloudWatch Logs ingestion costs over 20 times more than storage, the cost explosions caused by VPC Flow Logs and Lambda logs, and optimization strategies using the Infrequent Access class and S3 export.
Learn how to visualize and analyze cloud costs using AWS Cost Explorer. Covers usage monitoring with CloudWatch metrics integration and practical approaches to cost optimization.