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Approaches to cost control

Approaches to cost control - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Approaches to cost control

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- [Teacher] One of the most poorly implemented areas of the use of all AW services is proper cost control. And this is really unfortunate because this is a key expenditure for your business. For some reason, this metaphor of using Cloud Services versus licensed software and controlling and having predictable costs still is new or has a lot of learning for many of my customers. So although I've showed and we've talked about using the tools available inside of the Amazon console such as the Billing & Cost Management Dashboard and all the various tools associated here in this particular screen. Those are really just a starting point. In all the practices I talked about setting up alerts and having particular people be associated to responsibility for cost management are really key in core. You want to develop a forecasting mechanism that is continually updated, so that you have predictability around your spend. Now, to get us thinking about that, I'm going to show you an Amazon tool…

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