Cost Optimization Pillar

 

The ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources.

 

COST 1. How do you make sure your capacity matches but does not substantially exceed what you need?

 

COST 2. How are you optimizing your usage of AWS services?

 

COST 3. Have you selected the appropriate resources to meet your cost targets?

 

COST 4. Have you selected the appropriate pricing model to meet your cost targets?

 

COST 5. Are there managed services (higher-level services than Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3) you can use to improve your ROI?

 

COST 6. What access controls and procedures do you have in place to govern AWS usage?

 

COST 7. How are you monitoring usage and spending?

 

COST 8. Do you decommission resources that you no longer need or stop resources that are temporarily not needed?

 

COST 9. Did you consider data-transfer charges when designing your architecture?

 

COST 10. How do you manage and/or consider the adoption of new services?