Cost-Optimization Strategies within AWS

Considerations to reduce recurring bills for EC2, Lambda, and S3

Having worked extensively with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the past four years, one topic that surfaces frequently within my circles is the cost of running applications and databases in the cloud. Whether that be the price of storing data within the Simple Storage Service (S3), retaining snapshots of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes, or running Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, it’s easy for charges to accumulate and grab our attention when we…