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AWS Cost Optimisation Advent Calendar 2024

• Day 1 - Cost Explorer and Tags #aws
• Day 2 - Snapshots and Volumes #aws #ebs
• Day 3 - Graviton #aws #rds #ec2
• Day 4 - Cloudwatch Log Purging #aws #cloudwatch
• Day 5 - Rightsizing the Database #aws #rds
• Day 6 - S3 Object Expiry #aws #s3
• Day 7 - S3 Object Archiving #aws #s3
• Day 8 - Regional Pricing #aws
• Day 9 - ECR Cleanup #aws #ecr #ecs
• Day 10 - Auto Scaling #aws #ec2 #ecs
• Day 11 - Compute Optimizer #aws #ec2 #ebs #lambda
• Day 12 - Budgets and Anomaly Detection #aws
• Day 13 - Trusted Advisor #aws
• Day 14 - Savings Plans #aws #ec2 #fargate #ecs #lambda #sagemaker
• Day 15 - Reserved Instances #aws #ec2 #rds
• Day 16 - Switching off Staging and Test environments #aws
• Day 17 - Cost Optimization Hub #aws #ec2 #rds
• Day 18 - Volume Upgrades #aws #ebs
• Day 19 - Secrets #aws #secrets manager #systems manager
• Day 20 - Spot Instances #aws #ec2 #emr #elasticsearch #eks #redshift
• Day 21 - Serverless #aws #lambda #ecs #rds
• Day 22 - Elasticache #aws #elasticache
• Day 23 - CloudFront #aws #cloudfront
• Day 24 - Assign a FinOps Champion #aws

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