Using AWS Trusted Advisor to Monitor for Underutilized Resources

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 3 minutes and 41 seconds
Students: 316
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About

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: 

 

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