Cost Optimization on AWS

1. 20-January-2018
Albert Anthony
Founder - LovesCloud
www.loves.cloud
TBD
AWS Cost Optimization

2. Agenda
Introductions
AWS Tools for Cost Optimization
Reserved Instances
Spot Instances
Cost Explorer
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Billing
Billing Dashboard (Demo)
Case Study – Saving US $ 1.8 Million in AWS Costs
Free Training & Consulting on Reducing your AWS Bill!
Open Forum
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3. • Founded in 2017
• Based in India
• AWS Registered Consulting Partner
• Your Go-To Partner for Cloud
• Cloud Training & Consulting Service
• Specializes in Cloud Cost Optimization
• Saved millions of $$ for customers on Cloud
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4. What is AWS Cost?
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Cost = Usage x Rate

5. AWS Tools For Cost Optimization
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Cost
Explorer
Reserved
Instances
Spot
Instances
AWS Trusted
Advisor
AWS Billing
Measure and Monitor
Match Usage to Storage Class
Pick Right Pricing Model
Increase Elasticity
Right Size Your Instances

6. Cost Explorer
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FREE
Forecast costs
Access
Programmatically
Reporting

7. Reserved Instances
• Best used for “Always On” instances
• Up to 75% savings
• Approx. 20% - 40% savings for 1 year
• 1 – 3 year commitment
• 1 Year (approx. payback 7 – 9 months)
• 3 Year (approx. payback 10 – 18 months)
• AWS services offering RIs
• EC2 & EC2 Hosts
• RDS
• Redshift
• ElastiCache
• DynamoDB (Not an RI, discount for commitment)
• CloudFront (Not an RI, discount for commitment)
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Dev & Test
Environments
are not always
on!

8. Spot Instances
• Best value for EC2 capacity
• Up to 70% - 90% savings
• Good for all stateless workloads
• Dev, Test and Production
• One Time Compute Requirement
• Big Data, Batch Processing and so on..
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Connect with us
to run your
production
workloads on
spot!!

9. AWS Trusted Advisor
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New Checks Added:
Service Limits

10. AWS Billing
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• Set Budgets
• View Your Itemized Bill
• Detailed Billing Reports
• Customized Reports
• Month Till Date Spend
• Forecast for Month
• Billing Alerts
• Access Programmatically

11. Case Study – Saving US $ 1.8 Million
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$ 2,10,659
$ 1,13,350
$ 1,01,778
$ 84,850
$ 54,815
Feb-17 Mar-17 Apr-17 May-17 Jun-17
Elastic Block Storage Storage 592 TB  50 TB
Elastic File Service Storage 164 TB  77 TB
EC2-EMR Nodes 43  2
AWS Service Feb-17 Jun-17
Elastic Block Storage $61,001 $5,119
EC2 $50,886 $15,330
EC2 - EMR $21,501 $2,604
Elastic File Service $49,335 $23,076
AWS Support $9,491 $1,376
Re-architected application to utilize S3 instead of EBS and EFS
Used spot instances for EMR task nodes instead of on-demand nodes

12. Other Measures for Cost Optimization
• Use Tagging
• Consolidated Billing
• Use CloudFront
• Automate with CloudFormation
• Serverless & AWS Lambda
• Right Size Your Instances
• CloudWatch Monitoring
• Shut Down Idle Resources
• Delete unused EBS volumes
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13. AWS Training
• AWS Technical Essentials
• AWS Associate Level Certifications
• AWS Professional Certifications
• Architecting on AWS
• DevOps on AWS
• Cost Optimization on AWS
• Customized Training
• Project Specific Training
• Classroom & Online
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14. AWS Consulting and Architecting Services
• Cloud Migration
• Cost Optimization
• Monitoring & Logging
• Disaster Recovery
• DevOps (CI, CD Automation)
• Serverless (Optimizing Infrastructure Footprint)
• Governance & Continuous Compliance on Cloud
• Infrastructure Management & Architecture Best Practices
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15. www.loves.cloud
Managed Cloud Services
• Setup Monitoring, Logging and Alerts
• Cost Optimization and Automation
• Review Trusted Advisor Recommendations
• Backup Automation and Disaster Recovery
• Architecture Guidance and Recommendations
• Alliance with AWS Technical Manager
• Recommendation on Cloud Best Practices
• Security in Cloud (Data, Application, Resources)
• Cloud Management Training
• One Team to Manage AWS and Azure Environments

16. THANK YOU
albert@loves.cloud
Twitter : awsagile
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