Incepted with the aim of reducing costs of acquiring hardware upfront, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made development and deployment relatively faster and less costly. However, the retaining costs from some unused storage, Instances, and features of the Amazon EC2 remain a glitch in EC2 cost-effectiveness.

In this article, I’ll be highlighting some ideal ways to optimize your AWS EC2 costs using;

• Amazon provided cost management tools and some

• Best practices for reducing your Amazon Web Service EC2 bills

AWS Costs Management Tools

Amazon has provided us with a good number of analytics and automation tools to help streamline AWS data analysis and otherwise, heavy tasks. I’ve listed a number of these tools, with a brief explanation of how they work and how you can use them to optimize and reduce your AWS EC2 costs.

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