Summary

Throughout the previous few chapters, we have discussed various aspects of cost optimization, including AWS services, design best practices, and implementation scenarios. So far, you have reviewed various AWS pricing models and how to monitor and report on the costs and usage for your very own AWS accounts. You also learned the importance of right-sizing resources and went through some key best practices and recommendations as well. You reviewed the key cost optimization principles, followed by a review of essential tagging best practices and strategies. Later, you explored how to optimize costs by setting up simple alarms, alerts, notifications, and reports using various AWS services. Finally, in this chapter, you explored the best practices for creating a workload review process and examined the importance of decommissioning resources in AWS.

In ssw, Selecting Existing Workloads and Processes to Migrate, you will move to the part of this book that discusses the various...