Architecture Best Practices for Cost Optimization
Browse best practices for how to apply cost optimization principles when designing, configuring, and maintaining workloads in AWS Cloud environments.
Learn how to build workloads with the most effective use of services and resources to achieve business outcomes at the lowest price point with the Cost Optimization Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Featured Content
Getting Started
Guided introductions to help you understand pricing and cost calculations.
- Well-Architected Labs: Cost Optimization
- Blog: A Beginner's Guide to AWS Cost Management
- Whitepaper: Laying the Foundation - Setting Up Your Environment for Cost Optimization
Understanding AWS Pricing Models
Answers to your questions about how AWS costs apply to your workloads.
- Whitepaper: How AWS Pricing Works - AWS Pricing Overview
- Documentation: What is AWS Billing?
- Blog: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Reduce Costs
Architecting for Cost
Examples of pricing schedules used by real-world architectures.
- Solutions Implementation: Instance Scheduler on AWS
- Blog: Amazon S3 Cost Optimization for Predictable and Dynamic Access Patterns
- Blog: Overview of Data Transfer Costs for Common Architectures
Most Popular
- Whitepaper: How AWS Pricing Works - AWS Pricing Overview
- Well-Architected: Cost Optimization Pillar
- Whitepaper: Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances and Other Reservation Models