Optimising AWS Compute and Autoscaling for Cost Efficiency

Cloud computing offers great control and visibility over your systems and applications. With this control comes cost complexity, the potential for over-provisioning, and sometimes waste. To mitigate this, AWS compute services offer a number of ways to optimise your cloud spend.

Learning how to cost effectively use AWS compute and auto scaling will benefit anyone making use of the public AWS cloud.

In this hands-on lab, you will learn about optimising costs for compute in AWS, and you will use the AWS Management Console to practically implement cost control measures.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

• Right-size Amazon EC2 instances
• Measure compute utilization
• Understand container-based cost optimisation techniques
• Create a scheduled action for an auto scaling group

Intended audience

• Cloud Architects
• DevOps Engineers
• Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

• Amazon EC2
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS Container-based Compute

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

• Managing AWS Compute (EC2) & Block Storage (EBS)
• Understanding AWS Lambda to Run and Scale Your Code
• Monitor for Underutilized AWS Resources to Optimize Cost
• Utilizing Managed Services and Serverless Architectures to Minimize Cost