Cost Optimization Tutorials
Reduce AWS spend by identifying idle resources, rightsizing instances, and optimizing storage and network configurations. 34 tutorials across 6 categories.
Compute
- Deregister Unused AMIs (90+ Days)
- EC2 Low Utilization Instance Remediation Tutorial
- EC2 Instance with Old AMI Remediation Guide
- How to Upgrade an EC2 Instance from Old Generation to Modern Type
- EC2 Stopped Instance Remediation Tutorial
- Downsizing an Underutilized EC2 Instance
- Remediating Unused Lambda Functions
Storage
- How to Upgrade AWS EBS Volumes from gp2 to gp3
- How to Delete Unused EBS Snapshots
- Remediating Unattached EBS Volumes (7+ Days)
- How to Right-Size Overprovisioned EBS Volumes
- How to Delete an Underutilized EFS File System
- How to Configure S3 Lifecycle Rules for Cost Optimization
- Remediating S3 Bucket Default Encryption
Database
- How to Enable Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) on a DynamoDB Table
- Remediate Over-Provisioned DynamoDB Table
- Remediating ElastiCache Clusters with Low Hit Rates
- RDS gp2 to gp3 Storage Migration Tutorial
- RDS Low CPU Utilization Remediation Tutorial
- Upgrading RDS from Old Generation Instance Classes
- Remediate Old RDS Manual Snapshots
- RDS Stopped Instance
- Remediate Idle Redshift Cluster
- How to Reduce Redshift Cluster Size for Low CPU Utilization
Network
- ALB Low Traffic Remediation Tutorial
- How to Delete an Unused Application Load Balancer with No Targets
- How to Release an Unassociated Elastic IP Address
- How to Delete an Unused Classic Load Balancer
- How to Delete an Idle NAT Gateway
- How to Delete an Unused Security Group