Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Cost Optimization

Course description

With Amazon S3, you can lower costs without sacrificing performance. Amazon S3 lets you take control of costs and continuously optimize your spending. In this course, you learn about the techniques you can use to optimize your Amazon S3 costs. You also explore the tools available to understand the costs associated with Amazon S3 and forecast future billing.

• Course level: Advanced

• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes online materials and a knowledge check.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Optimize storage class choices for your data by performing storage class analysis

• Visualize your Amazon S3 analytics data using Amazon QuickSight

• Implement lifecycle policies for cost savings with Amazon S3

• Obtain organization-wide visibility into costs using Amazon S3 Storage Lens

• Integrate Amazon S3 storage with Amazon CloudWatch

• View, budget, and forecast your Amazon S3 costs using Amazon S3 reports and AWS Budgets

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects

• Storage architects

• Developers

• Operations engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have completed:

• Architecting on AWS or equivalent experience

• Getting Started with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

• AWS Storage Offerings 

Course outline

Introduction

• Directions

• Course introduction

• Course scenario

Optimizing Storage Costs

• Introduction to optimizing storage costs

• Storage Class Analysis

• Amazon QuickSight

• Lifecycle policies

Archiving for Cost Savings

• Archiving for cost savings

• Amazon S3 Storage Lens

• Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

• Viewing, budgeting, and forecasting your Amazon S3 costs