In this video, get introduced to AWS Cost Explorer, a tool that allows you to view, analyze, and forecast usage costs. Furthermore, learn how to configure this.
- [Instructor] AWS Cost Explorer … is an Amazon Web Services tool … that allows you to view and analyze your AWS usage and costs … using graphs and usage reports. … It allows you to view data for the past 13 months, … which includes your current month, … forecasts your estimated costs, … and also gives recommendations about Reserved Instances, … if you are using them. … When you sign up for Cost Explorer, … it takes about 24 hours for the current month's data … to be available, and it may take a few days … for the rest of the data to be available. … The cost data is updated at least once every 24 hours. … To start using Cost Explorer, login into your AWS account … and click on your name on the top right-hand corner … and click on My Billing Dashboard. … Click on Cost Explorer on the left navigation bar. … When you access this for the first time, … you will see a page titled Welcome to Cost Explorer … with an option to enable Cost Explorer. … I've already done that, … so I'm going to click on Launch Cost Explorer. …
Author
Shyam Raj
Released
3/26/2019- Automation and optimization in AWS
- On-Demand, Spot, and Reserved Instances
- AWS Auto Scaling
- Performing manual and scheduled scaling
- Simple and step scaling policies
- Creating and invoking a Lambda function
- Instance Scheduler
- Cost allocation tags
- Trusted Advisor recommendations
- Simple Monthly Calculator
- Cost Explorer
- Creating an organization and policy
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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1. Optimize Your EC2 Costs
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On-Demand EC2 instances2m 37s
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EC2 Spot Instances4m 43s
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Spot Instance interruptions4m 50s
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EC2 Reserved Instances4m 9s
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Launch Reserved Instances2m 17s
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2. Auto Scaling
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Auto Scaling3m 36s
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Create an Auto Scaling group4m 57s
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Manual scaling3m 41s
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Scheduled scaling3m 3s
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Target tracking2m 41s
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Simple scaling4m 8s
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Step scaling5m 28s
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3. AWS Lambda
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Lambda3m 47s
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Create a Lambda function4m 44s
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Invoke Lambda functions2m 22s
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4. AWS Instance Scheduler
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AWS Instance Scheduler2m 32s
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Deploy an Instance Scheduler6m 23s
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Instance Scheduler tags3m 18s
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5. Cost Allocation Tags
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Cost allocation tags1m 59s
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6. Trusted Advisor
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Trusted Advisor2m 31s
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7. AWS Cost Calculator and Explorer
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AWS Cost Explorer5m 3s
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8. AWS Organizations
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AWS Organizations2m 32s
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Create an AWS Organization3m 18s
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Conclusion
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Next steps38s
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