Top AWS Cost Optimization tools to look out for:
AWS Trusted Advisor: This is a free service that analyzes your AWS resources and provides recommendations to help you save money.
AWS Cost Explorer: This tool allows you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage.
AWS Budgets: This service allows you to set custom budgets for your AWS costs and receive alerts when your costs exceed your budgeted amount.
AWS Savings Plans: These plans allow you to save money on your AWS usage by committing to a consistent amount of usage over a one- or three year period.
AWS Reservations: These allow you to purchase a reservation for a discounted rate on Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS instances, and Amazon Redshift clusters.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: This service allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down based on demand.
Amazon CloudWatch: This service allows you to monitor your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real-time.
AWS Organizations: This service allows you to centrally manage and govern your AWS accounts.
AWS Compute Optimizer: This service provides recommendations to help you optimize the performance and cost of your Amazon EC2 instances.
AWS Lambda: This service allows you to run code in response to events, automatically scaling up or down based on demand.
Take a look at the proven cloud cost optimization strategies to help you truly achieve cost savings with the cloud: AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Best Practices