Five ways to monitor and control AWS cloud costs

May 14, 2015 Off By David
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Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Many IT teams find that their AWS cloud costs grow less efficient as “clutter” builds up in their accounts. The good news is that both AWS and a small army of third party providers have developed tools to help engineers discover the cause(s) of these inefficiencies.

While there are several “easier” fixes, such as Reserved Instances and eliminating unused resources, the real issue is usually far more complex. Unplanned costs are frequently the result of nonstandard deployments that come from an unclear or absent development processes, poor organisation, or the absence of automated deployment and configuration tools…


Controlling AWS costs is no simple task in enterprises with highly distributed teams, unpredictable legacy applications, and complex lines of dependency. Here are some strategies Logicworks engineers use to keep our clients’ costs down:…

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