Developer's Guide to AWS Costs

Helping #dev and #sre teams understand their cloud costs using #sql
Maintained by the team @getmacroscope

[Developer's Guide to AWS Costs @devcostguide]

If you're purchasing #RI in your @awscloud account, the most important field in your Cost and Usage Report is:

reservation/reservationeffectivecost

This field calculates hourly costs + amortized upfront fees for every instance.

[Developer's Guide to AWS Costs @devcostguide]

Unblended vs Blended rates

- Blended = an AVERAGE for each sku
- Unblended rates show you the ACTUAL cost for that time period.

Stick to unblended if you want to see your real costs.
#SRE #DevOps

[Developer's Guide to AWS Costs @devcostguide]

@awscloud Spot Instances ... love them or hate them?

Big discounts and inconsistent availability. The perfect combination for engineers trying to build resilient architectures.

Read more here: https://t.co/SkGFwzfraJ

[Developer's Guide to AWS Costs @devcostguide]

There are 2 ways you create cost in #AWS:

1. Turning on resources
2. The way you UTILIZE those resources

If you don't understand both, you're going to be surprised by cost spikes.

[Strake @getstrake]

One of the biggest cost categories for #AWS customers is conveniently called "EC2-Other". If only we knew what we were being charged for...

Macroscope's @BrianPRegan broke down EC2-Other in the most recent blog post. Check it out!

https://t.co/rkVhcorNy2

[Developer's Guide to AWS Costs @devcostguide]

This project was mentioned in the AWS Open Source blog by @094459 🚀🎊

Read more here: https://t.co/u2xlsnMdLw

[Developer's Guide to AWS Costs @devcostguide]

Easiest way to find the On-demand cost for all your @awscloud EC2 Instances:
https://t.co/iwbincjcKM

[Developer's Guide to AWS Costs @devcostguide]

Why is #sqlite3 the best for AWS cost analysis?

- It's free
- It's powerful (can analyze MONTHS of data at once)
- ANY engineer will know how to use it.

[Developer's Guide to AWS Costs @devcostguide]

What is the @devawscosts?

Developers, #devops, and #sre waste time trying to understand their @awscloud costs.

These guides show you how to find the costs using #SQL so you never have to use cost explorer ever again.

https://t.co/m6MGhlAXWp

[Jim Treinen @jamestr]

If you haven't already, check out the @getmacroscope Developer's Guide to AWS Costs. #awscloud #finops #infrastructure #Engineering