Designing for Cost Efficiency
In the previous section on migration planning, you explored and learned about the various avenues with which solutions architects such as yourself can help guide customers with their migration and modernization journey to the AWS cloud.
In this chapter, we continue along the same lines and explore how to effectively evaluate, design for, and manage costs on the AWS cloud. Throughout this chapter, we will be leveraging the same sample web application as before, exploring how costs are evaluated for each of the application’s components over time. You will also explore opportunities to right-size your workloads and, finally, dive deep into the AWS pricing models with the help of a few simple cost evaluation exercises.
The following main topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Understanding AWS pricing models
- Evaluating costs
- Right-sizing workloads
The next section begins with a detailed review of the various pricing models...
