Category: Cloud Cost Optimization

In this post we introduce a solution that addresses a common challenge faced by many customers: managing costs in multi-tenant applications, particularly for shared databases in HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) and HAQM Aurora. This solution uses HAQM RDS Performance Insights and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) to addresses this challenge. This allows for efficient grouping of tenants within the same RDS or Aurora instances, while helping you implement accurate chargeback models, optimize resource-intensive workloads, and make data-driven decisions for capacity planning.

In this post, we walk you through a solution to aggregate RDS orphan snapshots across accounts and AWS Regions, enabling automation and organization-wide visibility to optimize cloud spend based on data-driven insights. Cross-region copied snapshots, Aurora cluster copied snapshots and shared snapshots are out of scope for this solution. The solution uses AWS Step Functions orchestration together with AWS Lambda functions to generate orphan snapshot metadata across your organization. Generated metadata information is stored in HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) and transformed into an HAQM Athena table by AWS Glue. HAQM QuickSight uses the Athena table to generate orphan snapshot insights.

Flo is the largest app in the Health and Fitness category worldwide, with 70 million monthly active users. In this post, we explain best practices Flo implemented to scale to more than 70 million monthly active users while achieving 60% cost efficiency with HAQM DynamoDB.

In this post, we demonstrate an architecture pattern in which we migrate BLOB column data from HAQM RDS for Oracle tables to HAQM S3. This solution allows you to choose the specific columns and rows containing BLOB data that you want to migrate to HAQM S3. It uses HAQM S3 integration, which enables you to copy data between an RDS for Oracle instance and HAQM S3 using SQL.

A primary reason companies move their workloads to AWS is because of cost. With AWS, cloud migration and application modernization plans are based on your business needs and not agreements or licensing. You can acquire technology on an as-needed basis, only paying for the resources you use. You can build modern, scalable applications on AWS […]