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Everything you need to know about stable cost recommandations

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Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a fast, secure content delivery network (CDN) service provided by AWS that accelerates the delivery of static and dynamic web content (APIs, videos, images) to users globally. It uses a worldwide network of edge locations to cache content closer to users, reducing latency and improving performance.


CloudFront: Activate Compression
CloudFront: Purchase CloudFront saving bundle

Compute Savings Plans

Compute Savings Plans offer a flexible pricing model that provides savings on AWS usage. You can save up to 72% on your AWS compute workloads. Compute Savings Plans provide lower prices on Amazon EC2 instance usage regardless of instance family, instance size, OS, tenancy, or AWS Region.


CSP: Purchase Compute Savings Plans

Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed, scalable, and highly available NoSQL document database service provided by AWS. It is specifically designed to store, query, and index JSON data at scale while maintaining compatibility with MongoDB APIs.


DocumentDB: Delete idle Instances
DocumentDB: Modernize Instance
DocumentDB: upgrade storage from Standard to IO-Optimized

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that supports both key-value and document data models. It is designed to provide single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, handling more than 10 trillion requests per day.


DynamoDB: Change OnDemand to Provisioned
DynamoDB: Delete unused Global Secondary Indexes
DynamoDB: Change Storage type to Standard-Infrequent Access
DynamoDB: Purchase Reserved Capacity

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides secure, resizable virtual servers (instances) in the cloud, allowing users to rent computing capacity on-demand.


EC2: Delete unused AMIs
EC2: Delete Unused Elastic IPs
EC2: Delete Unused Load Balancers
EC2: Modernize Instances
EC2: Stop Idle Instances

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies running, stopping, and managing Docker containers on AWS.


ECS: Modernize x86 to Arm

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a fully managed, serverless, shared file storage service designed for use with AWS cloud services (EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS) and on-premises resources.


EFS: Delete Idle Elastic File Systems
EFS: Add EFS Intelligent Tiering policy
EFS: Delete unused file systems

Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service that supports Valkey, Redis OSS, and Memcached, providing microsecond latency to speed up applications and databases. It offers serverless deployment, automating setup, scaling, and backups while providing high availability.


ElastiCache: Delete Idle Instances
ElastiCache: Migrate ElastiCache instances to Graviton
ElastiCache: Migrate ElastiCache Redis to Valkey
ElastiCache: Modernize Instances
ElastiCache: Purchase Reserved Instances

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without installing or operating your own control plane.


EKS: Upgrade clusters covered by Extended Support

Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed AWS service designed to ingest, buffer, and process real-time streaming data at scale. It enables developers to analyze data—such as IoT telemetry, website clickstreams, or application logs—in milliseconds, facilitating immediate, actionable insights rather than waiting for batch processing.


Kinesis: Delete unused Kinesis data Stream

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing service that allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. You simply upload your code, and Lambda handles the infrastructure required to run and scale it with high availability.


Lambda: Memory Right Sizing
Lambda: Modernize x86 to Arm

Amazon MemoryDB

Amazon MemoryDB Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service for ultra-fast performance


MemoryDB: Purchase Reserved Instances

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed AWS service that simplifies deploying, operating, and scaling OpenSearch (a fork of Elasticsearch) for log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and full-text search.


OpenSearch: Migrate volume from GP2 to GP3
OpenSearch: Reduce over-provisioned storage
OpenSearch: Migrate instances to Graviton
OpenSearch: Modernize Instances
OpenSearch: Purchase Reserved Instances
OpenSearch: Upgrade domain covered by Extended Support

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, serverless, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service designed to create interactive dashboards, visualizations, and embedded analytics. It supports diverse data sources (S3, RDS, Athena, Redshift) and offers AI-driven insights (ML Insights) for anomaly detection and forecasting, enabling fast, scalable data analysis.


QuickSight: Remove Idle Users

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is designed for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and high-performance analysis of massive datasets using standard SQL.


Redshift: Purchase Serverless Reservations

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a highly scalable object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is designed to store and protect any amount of data for various use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, and enterprise applications.


S3: Add S3 Intelligent Tiering policy
S3: Purchase Reserved Instances

AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that allows you to coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows. You define these workflows as state machines using the Amazon States Language (ASL), a JSON-based structured language.


StepFunction: Change workflow to express

AWS Transfer Family

AWS Transfer Family is a fully managed, highly available file transfer service that supports SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and AS2 protocols to transfer data into and out of Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS. It provides scalable B2B data exchange, allowing secure, compliant transfers without changing existing client-side workflows, authentication, or infrastructure.


TransferFamily: Delete Idle Endpoints

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides a logically isolated, dedicated virtual network in the AWS cloud. It allows you to define your own IP address ranges, create subnets, and configure route tables and gateways to control network traffic. VPCs enhance security by allowing public-facing subnets and private-isolated subnets within a scalable, customized environment.


VPC: Delete Unused VPC Endpoints
VPC: Delete Unused NAT Gateways
VPC: Delete unused Gateway Load Balancer Endpoints