Cloud cost optimization toolkit

Looking for knowledge and tools for cloud cost optimization? Here you can find many useful links for Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Cost management

Tools for cost monitoring, reporting and alerting.

• AWS
  • AWS Cost Explorer
• Azure
  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Azure Cost Management Tutorial
• Google Cloud Platform
  • GCP Cost Management

Automatic advisors

Automatic recommendations based on current resuorce consumption.

• AWS
  • AWS Trusted Advisor
• Azure
  • Azure Advisor
• Google Cloud Platform
  • GCP Recommender

Instances start/stop scheduling

Automatic startup and shutdown of virtual machines or databases. For example, you can automatically shutdown your development environments for the evening or weekends.

• AWS
  • AWS Instance Scheduler - complex solution from AWS
• Azure
  • Start/Stop VMs during off-hours
• Google Cloud Platform
  • Scheduling compute instances with Cloud Scheduler
  • github.com/lmaczulajtys/gcp-instance-scheduler - similar to AWS solution written in Python
  • github.com/future-architect/gcp-instance-scheduler - different approach in Go

Instances reservation

Up to 70% discounts for reserving resources for 1 or 3 years.

• AWS
  • If you know amount and type of machines you want to reserve:
    • Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
    • Amazon RDS Reserved Instances
  • If you know how much ($/hour) computing power you are buing:
    • Savings Plans
• Azure
  • Reservations
• Google Cloud Platform
  • Committed use discounts

Spot/preemtible instances

Up to 70% discounts for using temporary virtual machines.

• AWS
  • Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
• Azure
  • Azure Spot Virtual Machines
• Google Cloud Platform
  • Preemptible Virtual Machines