AWS Cost Management Workshop at the San Francisco Loft AWS offers a number of products that allow you to access, organize, understand, optimize, and control your AWS costs and usage. This workshop will help you get started using AWS Cost Explorer to visualize your usage patterns and identify your underlying cost drivers. From there, you can take action on your insights by learning how to set custom cost and usage budgets and receive alerts via email or Amazon SNS topic using AWS Budgets.

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Eugene Khvostov | Sr. Product Manager – Technical
Erin Carlson | Product Marketing Manager
AWS Cost Management Workshop
SF Loft

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Agenda
9:30-10:00: Check-in
10:00-10:15: Introduction to AWS Cost Management
10:15-11:00: AWS Cost Explorer Workshop
11:00-11:45: AWS Budgets Workshop
11:45-12:00: Next Steps + Q&A
12:00-1:00: Lunch

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AWS Cost Management Product Suite
Our products allow you to access, organize, understand, control, and
optimize your costs and usage
AWS Cost &
Usage Report
AWS Cost
Categorization
AWS
Recommendations
AWS
Budgets
AWS Cost
Explorer
Access Organize Understand Control Optimize
with

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Access Organize Understand Control Optimize
Data Visualization
Trend Analysis
Cost Drivers
Usage Patterns
Cost Categorization
Tagging
Cost Allocation
Cost Budgeting
Usage Budgeting
AWS Credit Sharing
Cost Reporting
Usage Reporting
Data Analysis
Cost Visibility
RI Allocation RI Discount Sharing
Reserved Instances
Utilization Alerting
Coverage AlertingEmail Alerting
AWS Cost Management

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2018 Highlights
5/22: AWS Budgets Integration
into CloudFormation
8/28: Improved AWS Cost
Explorer User Experience
9/27: Cost & Usage Report Data
Expansion & Improvements
5
Cost Management
Products
10+
Significant
Feature Releases

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2018 Launches: Reserved Instance (RI) Management
1/23: Amortized RI Data 3/13: RI Coverage Reports
for Amazon RDS, Redshift,
ElastiCache
3/20: Programmatic
Access to RI Purchase
Recommendations
4/19: Amazon RDS RI
Purchase Recommendations
6/27: RI Purchase
Recommendations for
Linked Accounts
7/11: RI Purchase
Recommendations for Redshift,
ElastiCache, Elasticsearch
5/8: RI Coverage Alerts
via AWS Budgets
6/13: RI Savings
Information in Cost Explorer

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Workshop Plan
Access Organize Understand Control Optimize
Data Visualization
Trend Analysis
Cost Drivers
Usage Patterns
Cost Categorization
Tagging
Cost Allocation
Cost Budgeting
Usage Budgeting
AWS Credit Sharing
Cost Reporting
Usage Reporting
Data Analysis
Cost Visibility
RI Allocation RI Discount Sharing
Reserved Instances
Utilization Alerting
Coverage AlertingEmail Alerting

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Part 1: AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Cost Explorer
Use filtering, grouping, and other analytical functionality to identify your
underlying usage patterns and cost drivers

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Getting Started with AWS Cost Explorer
1. Get started quickly
A set of default reports are included
to help you quickly gain insight into
your cost drivers and usage trends
2. Adjust the time interval
Refine your dataset by adjusting the
time interval, as well as the data
granularity
3. Filter/group your data
Dig deeper into your data by taking
advantage of filtering and grouping
functionality on various dimensions
4. Save your progress
Once you arrive at a helpful view, save
your progress as a new report that you
can refer back to in the future

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AWS Cost Explorer
DEMO

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Next Step:
Cost Reporting

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• Can be configured at an hourly or daily level of detail
• Contains resource-level data, as well as additional metadata on products,
pricing, and more
• Contains granular information about your Reserved Instances
• Updated up to 3x daily
Enable the AWS Cost & Usage Report
The most comprehensive set of cost and usage information available

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1. Report is delivered to your
Amazon S3 bucket
2. Ingest report into a database
or tool of your choice
3. Build out custom queries,
reports, and more!
How does the Cost & Usage Report work?
You will be asked to specify
the specific S3 location during
report configuration
Your reports can be ingested
directly into Amazon Redshift
and/or Amazon QuickSight
Your reports can be ingested
directly into Amazon Redshift
and/or Amazon QuickSight

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Next Step:
Cost Optimization

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AWS Reserved Instances
Have you considered purchasing Reserved Instances (RI)?
• AWS Reserved Instances (RI) offer you a discounted hourly rate
(sometimes up to 75%) compared to on-demand usage
• Commit to a 1- or 3-year term of service usage for supported services
(Amazon EC2, RDS, Redshift, ElastiCache, and Elasticsearch)
• You can access your custom RI Purchase Recommendations in AWS Cost
Explorer

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RI Purchase Recommendations
Identify cost savings opportunities for your Amazon EC2, RDS, Redshift,
ElastiCache, and Elasticsearch reservations using Cost Explorer

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RI Reports
• Monitor your RI
portfolio using the
Utilization and
Coverage Reports
• Access your RI-related
savings information

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Part 2: AWS Budgets

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AWS Budgets
Create custom budgets that alert you when you exceed (or are forecasted to
exceed) your forecasted costs

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RI Reporting and Alerting

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Automate Budget Creation for New Accounts
AWS CloudFormation now supports using AWS Budgets as a resource when
creating templates, stacks, and StackSets
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-cloudformation-stacksets-to-provision-resources-across-multiple-
aws-accounts-and-regions/

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AWS Budgets
DEMO

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Next Steps
1. Access and use the AWS Billing Dashboard
2. Create a custom report in AWS Cost Explorer
3. Set a total monthly cost budget using AWS Budgets
4. Enable the AWS Cost & Usage Report
5. Access your RI Purchase Recommendations in AWS Cost Explorer

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Any Questions?
Check out the AWS Cost Management webpages:
https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/