AWS Startup Academy: Cost Optimisation Essentials for Startups

This session covers everything you need to know in order to to stretch your runway on AWS, spending less to get more. It will cover AWS tools to perform cost management, budget tracking, and making cost optimization simpler. It will look at motivations for cost management, how to organize cost with account and tagging strategies, how to define and measure cost KPIs, and how to monitor and forecast cost. It will review general and specific best practices where we will focus on strategies to optimize cost ranging from purchasing options to right sizing and selecting instance type based on workload. From this session you will leave with actionable steps to start cost optimization.