MicroNugget: How to Optimize AWS Costs

In this video, Bart Castle covers AWS costs — how to think about, plan for, and optimize them. AWS represents a quantum shift: it's a move away from owning assets toward using only what are needed. Bart explains how to save money inside that new way of thinking.

Amazon itself has an entire framework designed to help companies adjust to using AWS efficiently. For this video, the most important component of the framework is the cost-optimization pillar.

The whole point of using AWS is to save money, it'd effectively be a failure if it ended up being more expensive than the on-prem alternative. Hence their cost optimization principles.

Bart breaks down the five principles and explains how to apply them and change the central business mindset from acquiring assets and owning them over time, to using managed services when and only when they're needed.

Think within the new consumption model. Measure your current efficiency. Reduce data center operations spend. Analyze and attribute expenditures. Reduce the cost of ownership by using managed services.

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