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Cost Savings and Sustainability

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this post I will look at why I find it hard to understand why people have to focus specifically on cost-optimisation and sustainability initiatives rather than them being part of everyday design and build activities.

I am not implying these two items are not relevant, I am also not saying they shouldn’t be in the Well-Architected Framework.

What I am saying is that, if you do the first 4 pillars (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency) well, then most of the benefits should have already been achieved and there should not be a need to perform “Cost Optimizations” or “Sustainability Audits” of your AWS estate. There might be some tweaks and improvements but the base level of “Well-Architected” for those pillars should have been achieved.

Wait! IP4 has a cost?

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Caveat: I started this post in April because lots of people were shocked at the cost appearing on their bill. I got half way and though it wasn’t worth publishing as the chatter would die down. However 4 months later I am still seeing people ask what can they do about IPv4 costs so thought I’d finish it off.

So you will know, or should know, that the 1st February 2024 saw AWS introduce charges for all public IPv4 addresses in use within an AWS account.

My bill is how much‽

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most common post by newcomers to AWS seems to be bill shock or unexpected charges.

Some of this is from using a service with out knowing the costs or forgetting to shut something down and incurring costs for longer than planned.

Some however is where accounts have been compromised and resources used by someone else.

So what can you do to prevent this?

This article will look at ways of securing your account and managing your costs. It is a high level article and doesn’t go into every service mentioned in detail, however it should give you enough to protect yourself and point you to further resources.