Tracking your AWS resources
If you don’t know what you’re paying for, you’ll find it to be quite tough to reduce waste. All jokes aside, we can take a simple yet relatable example of managing your own personal finances.
You would very likely be unsuccessful at managing your own personal finances if you didn’t look at your monthly bill to see where you are spending your money. You may forget that you’ve been paying for a gym membership or a music subscription service that you no longer use, or the pest control service from your previous home. The same discipline of identifying wasteful spending and reducing unnecessary resource use should also apply to your AWS bill.
Fortunately, you don’t have to wait until the end of the month to analyze your bill as you do your finances. You can, and should, track the resources that you are paying for on a regular basis. This is often the first step toward optimization because you must first know what...