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Popular cost-savings workflows, at a glance

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Compute

Rightsizing, Spot, autoscaling, and purchase commitments.

·EC2 Fleet — mixed instances & purchasing
·Fargate Spot for cost-tolerant workloads
·Compute Optimizer recommendations
·Spot Instances 101
·Compute Savings Plans
·Graviton (ARM) instances

Storage

Storage-class transitions, lifecycle rules, archive tiers.

·S3 Intelligent-Tiering
·S3 lifecycle policies
·S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
·EBS gp3 volume conversion
·EFS Infrequent Access class

Databases

Serverless tiers, reserved capacity, on-demand vs provisioned.

·Aurora Serverless v2 sizing
·DynamoDB on-demand vs provisioned
·RDS Proxy connection pooling
·Stop/start idle RDS instances
·DynamoDB reserved capacity

Networking

NAT consolidation, endpoints, CloudFront, egress reduction.

·NAT Gateway consolidation
·VPC endpoints for AWS service traffic
·VPC gateway endpoints (S3/DynamoDB)
·CloudFront egress discounts

Serverless & AI

Lambda tuning, SageMaker spot, API cost guardrails.

·AWS Lambda Power Tuning
·Lambda Function URLs vs API Gateway
·SageMaker Managed Spot Training
·API Gateway HTTP APIs

Cost governance & operations

Budgets, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch, tagging.

·AWS Free Tier audit
·Budgets that actually alert
·Cost Explorer walkthrough
·Trusted Advisor cost checks
·Cost & Usage Report (CUR)
·CloudWatch Logs retention

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