AWS Infrastructure Cost Optimization
Project goals:
- Analyze the client’s cloud-based infrastructure, consisting of AWS EC2, Fargate and RDS services
- Analyze the services’ resource usage from different angles and find opportunities to optimize costs
Accomplishments:
- RDS (Oracle and SQL server), Fargate, EC2 CPU/Memory/IO usage has been analyzed – to propose more optimal instance sizes
- A shutdown policy has been implemented to save resources during off-hours
- Savings plan has been implemented to optimize the costs of the existing resources
- RDS Oracle and MS SQL Server SQL queries have been optimized to lower the actual CPU/Memory usage
Technologies:
- AWS EC2
- AWS Fargate
- AWS EKS
- AWS RDS
- Oracle Database
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Windows Server
Workload:
- 80 hours
Project team:
- Senior Oracle DBA
- Senior MS SQL Server DBA
- Senior AWS Architect