{"id":2878,"date":"2023-01-26T01:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T09:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2023-01-26T02:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T10:35:42","slug":"is-aws-sucking-your-budget-dry-strip-it-down-to-the-nitty-gritty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/is-aws-sucking-your-budget-dry-strip-it-down-to-the-nitty-gritty\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AWS sucking your budget dry? Strip it down to the nitty-gritty (without breaking stuff)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once provisioned, forever forsaken&#8230; far too many cloud resources\u2013be it IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, you name it, XaaS\u2013may be uselessly nibbling away at your or your clients&#8217; 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2013even in seemingly unrelated AWS accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To reduce your AWS expenses, you need to identify which infrastructure elements and other services no longer have a raison d&#8217;\u00eatre (pardon our French). The interdependencies are rarely obvious. There are more of them than meet the eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to reduce costs without breaking stuff, stay tuned for our report.<\/span> Subscribe below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #EEE; background: white;\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a heads-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Config,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Trusted Advisor,<\/span><\/li>\n<li>AWS <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tag Editor and the Tagging API,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Resource Explorer,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Trusted Advisor,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Billing Dashboard,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Cost Explorer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once provisioned, forever forsaken&#8230; far too many cloud resources\u2013be it IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, you name it, XaaS\u2013may be uselessly nibbling away at your or your clients&#8217; budget. 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