What you'll learn

It is easy to let costs run away from you when working in the cloud. Understanding what you are spending on each AWS service is vital for you and your organization. In this course, Make Cost-Optimized Decisions on AWS, you’ll learn to work with AWS services to reduce your costs. First, you’ll explore S3 storage classes, AWS compute, database services, and how you can make decisions that maintain performance while reducing costs. Next, you’ll discover tools that you can use to estimate and monitor your AWS spending. Finally, you’ll learn how to satisfy the requirements of the design cost-optimized architectures domain of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of AWS Costs needed to make cost optimized decisions in AWS and to answer questions from the design cost-optimized architectures domain of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam.