Checklist for AWS Cost Optimisation
1 min readDec 2, 2017
- Create a monthly budget in Billing Dashboard
- Check detailed billing reports every month
- Follow guides on Trusted Advisor
- — Unnecessary disks and images?
- — Wrong instance types. Too much CPU then really required?
- Check CloudFront usage. Is someone stealing your bandwidth?
- Think reserving for new instances.
- Is there any detached Elastic Ips? Detached Elastic Ips are not free!
- Is there any unnecessary load balancers?
- You may need a “Delete Policy” for your S3 backup and logs buckets.
- Check your backup and logs buckets has a VPC endpoint.
