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Understanding AWS Cost Drivers

Cloud spending can be unpredictable and impact budgets. This course will teach you how to identify AWS cost drivers, understand pricing models, and use cost management tools to optimize spending and make informed cloud cost decisions.

Beginner
21m
(4)

Created by Lucian Lazar

Last Updated Mar 20, 2025

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Understanding AWS Cost Drivers

Cloud spending can be unpredictable and impact budgets. This course will teach you how to identify AWS cost drivers, understand pricing models, and use cost management tools to optimize spending and make informed cloud cost decisions.

Beginner
21m
(4)

Created by Lucian Lazar

Last Updated Mar 20, 2025

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What you'll learn

Cloud spending can be unpredictable and cause budgeting problems. In this course, Understanding AWS Cost Drivers, you’ll learn to control and optimize your AWS cloud spend. First, you’ll explore the main cost drivers in AWS - compute, storage, databases, data transfer, and networking. Next, you’ll discover the AWS pricing model and how cost management tools track your expenses. Finally, you’ll learn how to make informed decisions on provisioning, scaling, and balancing technical costs with business impact. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the AWS cost management skills needed to optimize your cloud investments.

Understanding AWS Cost Drivers
Beginner
21m
(4)
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Lucian Lazar - Pluralsight course - Understanding AWS Cost Drivers
Lucian Lazar
10 courses 4.6 author rating 23 ratings

Lucian is a software developer and teaching assistant passionate about mentoring others in Oracle databases, PL/SQL programming and performance tuning.

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