Tips to avoid surprises in your AWS bill

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  • komiser

    Open-source cloud-environment inspector. Supporting AWS, GCP, Azure, and more! Your cloud resources will have nowhere to hide!

  • You can use a tool like Komiser to detect any unattached Elastic IPs, as seen below:

  • autoscaler

    Autoscaling components for Kubernetes

  • Use a Cluster Autoscaler to automatically adjust the size of your cluster.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • aws-lambda-power-tuning

    AWS Lambda Power Tuning is an open-source tool that can help you visualize and fine-tune the memory/power configuration of Lambda functions. It runs in your own AWS account - powered by AWS Step Functions - and it supports three optimization strategies: cost, speed, and balanced.

  • Optimise the memory settings for functions that use provisioned concurrency and adjust memory allocation for a function by using a tool like this to avoid guesswork.

  • eksctl

    The official CLI for Amazon EKS

  • Many third-party tools use CloudFormation under the hood too, such as eksctl and AWS CDK so be sure to track the tools that were used to provision resources, and when it’s time to decommission those resources, be sure to use the tool that provisioned them in the first place.

  • aws_breaking_changes

    List of changes announced for AWS that may break existing code

  • We need to be aware of the pricing models we have agreed to and should be notified if the pricing models change. A great tool to be sure you don’t miss any pricing model changes is this one.

  • aws-cdk

    The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

  • Many third-party tools use CloudFormation under the hood too, such as eksctl and AWS CDK so be sure to track the tools that were used to provision resources, and when it’s time to decommission those resources, be sure to use the tool that provisioned them in the first place.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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