Seven ways to save cost on your AWS Account
Introduction
AWS has been number one according to Gartner rating in Strategic Cloud Platform for thirteen years. This is a fit no cloud provider has ever reached in the Cloud computing space, making AWS the leader in the Strategic Cloud Platform Space. But being a leader also comes with its pros and cons and many people always need help with their cloud economics and tend to accuse AWS of huge cloud costs.
The issue of cloud cost is usually a controversial topic about one provider being more expensive than others, but the culture of your organization and the architecture of your workloads reflect in your cloud costs. When these two are properly managed, you can rest assured you will get the most optimized cost for your workload and efficient services.
The How?
As I stated previously, two techniques can be deployed to optimize your cloud cost-efficiently, in this article I shall mention a few of them that are more culture-based than architecture because culture is more important than technical architecture. Going from the popular saying that “culture eats strategy for breakfast”, these are a list of systems to follow to ensure you do not overspend in provisioning workload in your AWS cloud account:
- Set Budget Alarms:
Budget alarms are the fastest and…