AWS: Controlling Cost

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Free Online Course: AWS: Controlling Cost provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. AWS: Controlling Cost is taught by Lynn Langit.

Overview
  • Learn how to use AWS tools and best practices to understand, forecast, and control Amazon Web Services (AWS) service costs.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Control your costs on AWS
    • About using cloud services
    1. Approaches to Cloud Service Cost Control
    • Why control AWS service costs?
    • Who should manage AWS cost control?
    • Understanding AWS free tier
    • AWS Billing Dashboard and AWS Budgets
    • AWS Organizations: Consolidate costs
    • Other AWS Biling tools: Tagging
    • AWS Config tag rules
    • Tag resource groups and cost categories
    • Billing and preferences
    2. Control Costs by Service
    • AWS service types
    • File storage costs: S3
    • Compute costs: EC2 instance types
    • Compute costs: EC2 purchase types
    • Control compute costs: Lambda
    • Control database costs: RDS
    • Control database costs: DynamoDB
    • Start services with CloudFormation
    3. Cost Management Tools
    • Cost Explorer
    • Cost and Usage Reports
    • Budgets Reports
    • Anomaly Detection
    • Reservations
    • Savings Plans
    4. AWS Cost Control Tools
    • CloudWatch billing alarms
    • AWS Marketplace subscriptions
    • AWS Service Catalog
    • AWS EC2 Compute Optimizer
    • Well-Architected cost control workload
    5. Cost Control Scenarios
    • Understand true cost
    • Marketing website
    • Dynamic website
    • Internal business application
    • Big data pipeline
    • Other cost control tips
    Conclusion
    • Next steps to control costs