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Reducing compute costs

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Reducing compute costs

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Compute is usually the most significant spend in the cloud. AWS has different compute services, including Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service or ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, and more. The first step in cost optimization is understanding these services and their use cases. Use the AWS documentation to understand which service may be best to handle your workload. Consider the following strategies to reduce your compute costs. Right-size EC2 instances. AWS has many EC2 instance families like general purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, storage optimized, and more. Each instance family has many instance types or sizes. Each instance type and family is optimized for specific use cases. For example, the T3 instance type, part of the general purpose family, is ideal for web servers, small databases, and development environments. Meanwhile, the C5 instance type, part of the compute optimized family, is ideal for use cases such as batch processing, scientific modeling,…

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