Tag Archives: AWS Cost Optimization

AWS: Cost optimization – an overview of Bills, Cost Explorer, and the costs control

23 June 2024
 

 Let’s continue our series on cost optimization in AWS. Previous posts: AWS: cost optimization – purchasing RDS Reserved Instances AWS: Cost Explorer – costs checking on the CloudWatch Logs example AWS: Cost optimization – services expenses overview and traffic costs in AWS Now that we understand what we pay for in AWS, let’s see what… Read More »

AWS: VPC Flow Logs, NAT Gateways, and Kubernetes Pods – a detailed overview

5 May 2024
 

 We have a relatively large spending on AWS NAT Gateway Processed Bytes, and it became interesting to know what exactly is processed through it. It would seem that everything is simple – just turn on VPC Flow Logs and see what’s what. But when it comes to AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service and NAT Gateways, things… Read More »

Kubernetes: Cluster Cost Monitoring – Kubernetes Resource Report and Kubecost

29 January 2023
 

  The very useful thing is to monitor how efficiently the cluster is being used, especially if applications are deployed by developers who do not delve into requests much and set inflated values ​​”in reserve”. A reserve, of course, is needed – but simply requesting resources is a bad idea. For example, you have a… Read More »

AWS: Trusted Advisor, part 1 – its features overview

29 November 2021
 

 AWS Trusted Advisor is another service that allows monitoring your accountant its resources in use for their cost-effectiveness, performance, security, and more. Keep in mind, that Trusted Advisor’s checks that are available for you depend on the AWS Support Plan of your account. вашего аккаунта. Fortunately, we have Premium so I’m able to how all… Read More »

AWS: Cost optimization – services expenses overview and traffic costs in AWS

3 November 2021
 

 Let’s proceed with our journey on AWS Cost Optimization topics. Previous parts – AWS: Cost Explorer – costs checking on the CloudWatch Logs example and AWS: cost optimization – purchasing RDS Reserved Instances. One of the shortcomings of the cloud-based architecture is the fact, that it can cost much more than when using own bare-metal… Read More »

AWS: Cost Explorer – costs checking on the CloudWatch Logs example

7 September 2021
 

 This post isn’t an overview of the AWS Cost Explorer service, but just a quick example of how to detect costs for your AWS account and its services. So, when I came back from the vacation, I noticed that we’ve paid more than usually for the AWS CloudWatch for August – almost 50 dollars per… Read More »