Cost Optimization

The ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources. 

Design Principles

There are five design principles for cost optimization in the cloud:

  • Adopt a consumption model
  • Measure overall efficiency
  • Stop spending money on data center operations
  • Analyze and attribute expenditure
  • Use managed services to reduce cost of ownership
How does Idealstack help you implement this?
  • Only pay for what you use
  • Utilise reserved instances to reduce costs
  • Idealstack manages your stack, operating system updates and other mundane tasks to reduce your cost of ownership

Read how to optimize AWS costs