Monitor for Underutilized AWS Resources to Optimize Cost

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 2 minutes and 18 seconds
Students: 288
Rating: 5/5

In this lesson, we explain how to monitor for underutilized and idle resources within AWS to reduce your overall spend.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the AWS services that can help you monitor for underutilized resources, such as AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Cost Explorer, and Trusted Advisor 
  • You will also understand the benefits, use cases, and advantages of each of these services

Intended Audience

  • Those that are looking to more easily detect AWS resources that are idle or underutilized, specifically compute and storage resources
  • Those looking for ways to reduce their bill and better govern their infrastructure

Prerequisites

To get the most from this lesson, you should have a good understanding of the fundamental services in AWS, such as EC2, Lambda, S3, EBS, and CloudWatch. For more information on these services, check out the following lessons titled: