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Cloud Cost Optimization Roadmap 2025

Learn proven strategies to optimize AWS costs without sacrificing performance. This roadmap covers cost visibility, right-sizing, reserved capacity, spot instances, and architectural optimizations.

2-3 months
10 learning steps
3 hands-on projects
Updated 2025-01-01
AWSCost OptimizationFinOpsCloud EconomicsSavings
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Prerequisites

  • Basic AWS knowledge
  • Understanding of AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3)
  • Access to AWS billing console

What You'll Learn

  • Reduce AWS costs by 30-70%
  • Implement cost governance and tagging
  • Use reserved instances and savings plans effectively
  • Optimize architecture for cost efficiency

AWS Cost Explorer

Analyze and visualize your AWS costs and usage.

1 week
Skills You'll Learn
Cost ExplorerCost AnalysisFilteringForecasting

Cost Allocation Tags

Implement tagging strategy for cost allocation.

1 week
Skills You'll Learn
Tagging StrategyCost AllocationTag PoliciesAutomation
Hands-on Projects
Tagging Strategy Implementation

Design and implement a comprehensive tagging strategy

intermediate4 hours

AWS Budgets & Alerts

Set up budgets and alerts to prevent cost overruns.

3 days
Skills You'll Learn
AWS BudgetsAlertsActionsForecasting

Right Sizing

Identify and implement right-sizing recommendations.

2 weeks
Skills You'll Learn
Right SizingCompute OptimizerInstance SelectionPerformance Analysis
Hands-on Projects
Right Sizing Analysis

Analyze and implement right-sizing for EC2 instances

intermediate3 hours

Reserved Instances & Savings Plans

Commit to usage for significant discounts.

2 weeks
Skills You'll Learn
Reserved InstancesSavings PlansConvertible RIsCoverage Analysis

Spot Instances

Use spot instances for fault-tolerant workloads.

1 week
Skills You'll Learn
Spot InstancesSpot FleetInterruption HandlingMixed Instances

S3 Cost Optimization

Use storage classes, lifecycle policies, and intelligent tiering.

1 week
Skills You'll Learn
Storage ClassesLifecycle PoliciesIntelligent TieringS3 Analytics

EBS Optimization

Optimize EBS volumes and snapshots.

1 week
Skills You'll Learn
EBS Volume TypesSnapshot Managementgp3 Migration
Hands-on Projects
EBS Cost Reduction

Migrate to gp3 and clean up unused snapshots

beginner2 hours

Serverless for Cost Efficiency

Use serverless to eliminate idle capacity costs.

2 weeks
Skills You'll Learn
Lambda PricingAPI Gateway PricingServerless vs Containers

Auto Scaling Optimization

Implement effective auto scaling to match demand.

1 week
Skills You'll Learn
Scaling PoliciesPredictive ScalingTarget Tracking

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