From the course: AWS Essential Training for Architects (2019)

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Keeping tabs on the tab

Keeping tabs on the tab - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Essential Training for Architects (2019)

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Keeping tabs on the tab

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[ Man ] In addition to optimizing for performance, security, durability, and scalability. Optimizing for cost should be part of every cloud architects design agenda. Becoming aware and staying aware of expenses when using cloud services is critical to being able to optimize for cost. Optimizing for cost entails thinking about ways to model spending to help forecast cost expectations. To accurately track actual spending, and to use the right tools to analyze how actual usage is aligning with the plan. One tool AWS provides to help with building a spending model is the Simple Monthly Calculator. This is a tool that helps to forecast expected spend. And so this tool can actually be found in a URL entitled over here. It's found at calculator.s3.amazonaws.com And on the left here you see a lot of different services that are provided by AWS. So for example we can take a look at RDS. And then we can start to configure an RDS…

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