Cost control

• Why focus on cost?

  • Produce more rounded, cloud-ready designs

• Who is responsible for cost control?

  • You

  • Business owners

  • Developers

  • Operations

  • Finance

• Dealing with budget owners

  • Solution design

    • Separate one-off and monthly costs

    • Include non-AWS costs

    • Link to AWS calculator

    • Sign-off section

    • Include a clear bill of materials

  • Nothing is built without signed off design

  • Building solutions

    • Building to design and specification

    • 'Just in time' provisioning

  • Running solutions

    • Identifying cost savings

    • Gamification (cost-saving leaderboard)

    • KPIs

    • Incentives

  • Reviewing projects

    • New projects - week after launch, after 1 month

    • Ongoing projects - review every 3 months

• Tagging resources

  • Tags - what are they?

    • Key / Value pairs

    • A way to identify and group resources

    • Maximum of 50 or 10 tags per resources

    • Character set and length limits

    • Some resources can not be tagged

  • Tagging standard scheme

    • Match your company, IT or project structure

    • Untagged resource policy

    • Document it and set a start date

    • Potential tags

      • 'Name' is a given

      • 'Purpose' - web, app, mobile, etc.

      • 'Project' - application, new app, etc

      • 'Creator' - name of a person or tool

      • 'Environment' - staging, test, UAT

      • 'Freetext' - anything at all

    • Leave rome for expansion

  • Set and get tags

    • Console

    • CLI

    • CloudFormation

    • SDKs

  • Bulk tag editing can be performed with 'Tag Editor'

  • Tag enforcement can be done with 'Tag Policies'

  • Resource Groups can be created with group AWS resources by the given set of tags