I’ve been doing a ton of Cloud Cost Optimization and FinOps work in general so here’s where I’m putting my notes to reference later and also for other people to find and hopefully get some use out of.
AWS Built In Tools:
- AWS Cost Explorer
- Trusted Advisor
- AWS Billing and Cost Management
- Compute Optimizer
- AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)
- AWS Finops Agent(preview)
Azure Built In Tools:
- Azure Advisor
- Billing
- TBD
Cost Optimizations in order of impact(generally speaking):
- Resource Reservations / Savings Plans
- Default Storage Tiering
- Object Storage Lifecycle ManagemenT
- Rightsizing compute
- Dynamically shutting down compute when not needed
- Unattached Block Storage