Optimize cloud costs through resource rightsizing, tagging strategies, reserved instances, and spending analysis. Use when reducing cloud expenses, analyzing infrastructure costs, or implementing cost governance policies.
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Strategies and patterns for optimizing cloud costs across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Implement systematic cost optimization strategies to reduce cloud spending while maintaining performance and reliability.
Savings: 30-72% vs On-Demand
Term: 1 or 3 years
Payment: All/Partial/No upfront
Flexibility: Standard or Convertible
Compute Savings Plans: 66% savings
EC2 Instance Savings Plans: 72% savings
Applies to: EC2, Fargate, Lambda
Flexible across: Instance families, regions, OS
Savings: Up to 90% vs On-Demand
Best for: Batch jobs, CI/CD, stateless workloads
Risk: 2-minute interruption notice
Strategy: Mix with On-Demand for resilience
resource "aws_s3_bucket_lifecycle_configuration" "example" {
bucket = aws_s3_bucket.example.id
rule {
id = "transition-to-ia"
status = "Enabled"
transition {
days = 30
storage_class = "STANDARD_IA"
}
transition {
days = 90
storage_class = "GLACIER"
}
expiration {
days = 365
}
}
}
locals {
common_tags = {
Environment = "production"
Project = "my-project"
CostCenter = "engineering"
Owner = "[email protected]"
ManagedBy = "terraform"
}
}
resource "aws_instance" "example" {
ami = "ami-12345678"
instance_type = "t3.medium"
tags = merge(
local.common_tags,
{
Name = "web-server"
}
)
}
Reference: See references/tagging-standards.md
# AWS Budget
resource "aws_budgets_budget" "monthly" {
name = "monthly-budget"
budget_type = "COST"
limit_amount = "1000"
limit_unit = "USD"
time_period_start = "2024-01-01_00:00"
time_unit = "MONTHLY"
notification {
comparison_operator = "GREATER_THAN"
threshold = 80
threshold_type = "PERCENTAGE"
notification_type = "ACTUAL"
subscriber_email_addresses = ["[email protected]"]
}
}
Development: t3.small RDS
Staging: t3.large RDS
Production: r6g.2xlarge RDS with read replicas
Hot data: S3 Standard
Warm data: S3 Standard-IA (30 days)
Cold data: S3 Glacier (90 days)
Archive: S3 Deep Archive (365 days)
resource "aws_autoscaling_policy" "scale_up" {
name = "scale-up"
scaling_adjustment = 2
adjustment_type = "ChangeInCapacity"
cooldown = 300
autoscaling_group_name = aws_autoscaling_group.main.name
}
resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "cpu_high" {
alarm_name = "cpu-high"
comparison_operator = "GreaterThanThreshold"
evaluation_periods = "2"
metric_name = "CPUUtilization"
namespace = "AWS/EC2"
period = "60"
statistic = "Average"
threshold = "80"
alarm_actions = [aws_autoscaling_policy.scale_up.arn]
}
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