Right-Sizing and Cost Optimization — Roadmap Step & Resources
Finding and fixing over-provisioned resources that quietly waste money
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: AWS Cloud Engineer
Before this step
Interview questions
- How would you investigate an unexpected 30% jump in a client's AWS bill?
Study resources
- AWS Well-Architected Framework: Cost Optimization Pillar (Article) — The official AWS Well-Architected Framework's cost optimization pillar.
- AWS Cost Optimization Explained (Video) — Covers finding and fixing over-provisioned resources.
- Azure Well-Architected Framework: Cost Optimization (Article) — Microsoft's own official Well-Architected Framework cost optimization pillar.
- Azure Cost Optimization Explained (Video) — Covers finding and fixing over-provisioned Azure resources.
- Google Cloud Architecture Framework: Cost Optimization (Article) — Google Cloud's own official Architecture Framework cost optimization pillar.
- AWS Skill Builder (Article) — AWS's own official, free digital training platform with hands-on labs and courses for this exact topic area.
- Google Cloud Skills Boost (Article) — Google Cloud's own official, free training platform with hands-on labs for this exact topic area.
Part of
- Cost Management and Optimization — section
- AWS Cloud Engineer roadmap — the full learning path