Once provisioned, forever forsaken… far too many cloud resources–be it IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, you name it, XaaS–may be uselessly nibbling away at your or your clients’ budget. Unless your goal is to tighten the belt by hook or by crook, you need a clear view of what is needed and what is not. Before you pull the plug, obviously.
On AWS, the sheer scope of individual services has grown to unmanageable proportions. The cloud landscape has become deeply fragmented. Individual services are highly specialized and may partially overlap. But even more importantly, they sometimes interlock in unexpected ways.
AWS users can list all resources using the AWS command line interface or the AWS API. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A misstep in overzealous resource sharing can backfire quite badly for the rest of your deployment–even in seemingly unrelated AWS accounts.
To reduce your AWS expenses, you need to identify which infrastructure elements and other services no longer have a raison d’être (pardon our French). The interdependencies are rarely obvious. There are more of them than meet the eye.
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Here’s a heads-up:
- AWS Config,
- AWS Trusted Advisor,
- AWS Tag Editor and the Tagging API,
- AWS Resource Explorer,
- AWS Trusted Advisor,
- AWS Billing Dashboard,
- AWS Cost Explorer.
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