Cost Optimisation on AWS
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The document discusses cost optimization strategies for using AWS, highlighting the advantages of replacing capital expenses with variable costs and leveraging economies of scale. It provides practical tips such as instance selection, auto-scaling, and utilizing reserved and spot instances to lower costs, along with suggestions for appropriate storage usage and offloading tasks. Additionally, it emphasizes the benefits of using consolidated billing and AWS tools for effective cost management.
Cost Optimisation on AWS
- 1. Cost Optimisation on AWS [email protected] @IanMmmm Ian Massingham — Technical Evangelist
- 2. How to make your funding go further
- 3. LOWER COSTS WITH THE AWS CLOUD 2 31 4 Replace up-front capital expense with low variable cost Save more money as you grow bigger Economies of scale allow AWS to continually lower costs Pricing model choice to support variable & stable workloads
- 4. LOWER COSTS THAN ON-PREMISES On-Premises Traditional Data Centre On-Premises Virtualised Data Centre AWS CAPEX CAPEX OPEX OPEX OPEX Cost savings from running internal IT more efficiently Cost savings from moving to a cloud provider AWS Scale • Multiple new data centres built each year • Volume purchasing, highly automated supply chain optimisation Utilisation fundamentally higher in the AWS Cloud • Aggregating non-correlated workloads, scale, spot market Amazon specific hardware designs • OEM acquisition of custom servers and networking equipment • Direct purchasing of memory, disk & CPU • AWS controlled hypervisor and network protocol layers
- 5. AWS PRICING PHILOSOPHY More AWS Usage More Infrastructure More Customers Lower Infrastructure Costs Economies of Scale Reduced Prices Ecosystem Global Footprint New Features New Services Infrastructure Innovation 47PRICE REDUCTIONS We pass the savings along to our customers in the form of low prices and continuous reductions
- 6. Flipboard Example: Handling objection AWS gets expensive as you grow big…
- 7. COST OPTIMISATION TIPS & TRICKS
- 8. 1. CHOSE THE RIGHT INSTANCE TYPES Choose an instance that best meets your basic requirements Start with memory & then choose closest virtual cores Assess peak IOPS storage requirements Run multiple instances in multiple Availability Zones Change instance size up or down based upon monitoring Use CloudWatch & Trusted Advisor to assess START DEPLOY & SCALETUNE
- 9. 2. USE AUTO SCALING LAUNCH CONFIGURATION Describes what Auto Scaling will create when adding Instances Only one active launch configuration at a time as-‐create-‐launch-‐config -‐-‐image-‐id ami-‐54cf5c3d -‐-‐instance-‐type m1.small -‐-‐key mykey -‐-‐group webservers -‐-‐launch-‐config 101-‐launch-‐config AUTO SCALING GROUP Auto Scaling managed grouping of EC2 instances Automatically scale the number of instances by policy as-‐create-‐auto-‐scaling-‐group 101-‐as-‐group -‐-‐availability-‐zones us-‐east-‐1a us-‐east-‐1b -‐-‐launch-‐configuration 101-‐launch-‐config -‐-‐load-‐balancers myELB -‐-‐max-‐size 5 -‐-‐min-‐size 1 AUTO SCALING POLICY Parameters for performing an Auto Scaling action Scale Up/Down and by how much as-‐put-‐scaling-‐policy 101ScaleUpPolicy -‐-‐auto-‐scaling-‐group 101-‐as-‐group -‐-‐adjustment=1 -‐-‐type ChangeInCapacity -‐-‐cooldown 300
- 10. 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 UTILISATION & AUTO SCALING GRANULARITY
- 11. 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 UTILISATION & AUTO SCALING GRANULARITY 41 Instance Hours m3.large @ $0.154/hr = $6.314/day
- 12. 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 UTILISATION & AUTO SCALING GRANULARITY 70 Instance Hours t2.small @ $0.028/hr = $1.96/day 69%SAVING
- 13. 3. TURN OFF UNUSED INSTANCES Development/test instances Simple instance stop/start Tear down & build rapidly Treat resources as disposable Deployment & Management Containers Dev/ops Tools Resource Templates Usage Tracking Monitoring and Logs
- 14. 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 4. USE RESERVED INSTANCES 100% 75% 58% 38% 13% 8% On Demand Instance Reserved Instance
- 15. AWS SERVICES OFFERING RESERVATIONS Amazon EC2 up to 75% savings Amazon RDS up to 76% savings Amazon DynamoDB up to 76% savings Amazon Redshift up to 73% savings Amazon ElastiCache up to 70% savings
- 16. 5. USE SPOT INSTANCES Pricing Up to 92% discount Elastic Capacity not otherwise available Tradeoff Potential for interruption
- 17. USING SPOT INSTANCES FOR HPC WORKLOADSC ase Study Building a Top500 HPC Cluster on AWS 0 18 35 53 70 On-Premises AWS $68M $33K Cost Comparison 1.21 PFLOPS, 16,788 EC2 Instances in 8 Regions, 264 years of computing in 18 hours
- 18. 6. MAKE USE OF APPROPRIATE STORAGE CLASSES AWS Cloud Amazon Glacier Gateway Appliance/ AWS Storage Gateway Amazon S3 Block File On-premises Data Center Archive Backup Disaster Recovery Amazon EBS Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy • 99.99% durability vs. 99.999999999% • Up to 20% savings • Great for everything that is easy to reproduce Amazon Glacier • Same durability as S3 • 3 to 5 hours restore time • Up to 67% savings • Great for archiving, long-term backups and cold or old data
- 19. 7. OFFLOAD FROM YOUR ARCHITECTURE The more you can offload, the less infrastructure you need to maintain, scale and pay for • Offload traffic to Amazon CloudFront and S3 • Introduce Caching No CDN ResponseTime InstanceLoad ResponseTime Instance Load CDN for Static Content ResponseTime Instance Load CDN for Static & Dynamic Content
- 20. 8. USE SERVICES, DON’T REINVENT THE WHEEL Infrastructure Regions Availability Zones Points of Presence Enterprise Applications Virtual Desktops Sharing & Collaboration Core Services Storage (Object, Block and Archival) Compute (VMs, Auto-scaling and Load Balancing) Databases (Relational, NoSQL, Caching) Networking (VPC, DX, DNS) CDN Access Control Usage & Resource Tracking Monitoring and Logs Administration & Security Key Storage & Management Identity Management Service Catalog Platform Services Deployment & Management One-click web app deployment Dev/ops resource management Resource Templates Push Notifications Mobile Services Identity Sync Mobile Analytics App Services Queuing & Notifications Workflow App streaming Transcoding Email Search Analytics Hadoop Data warehouse Data Pipelines Real-time Streaming Data Code Deploy Code Pipeline Code Commit
- 21. AVOID UNDIFFERENTIATED HEAVY LIFTING Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Elastic Load Balancing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Amazon ElastiCache Amazon Elastic MapReduce Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
- 22. 9. USE CONSOLIDATED BILLING • Receive a single bill for all charges incurred across all linked accounts • Share RI discounts • Combine tiering benefits
- 23. 10. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AWS TOOLS AWS Trusted Advisor AWS EC2 Usage Reports
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