Leveraging custom AWS Config rules to optimize cost saving on AWS
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article discusses how to leverage custom AWS Config rules to optimize cost savings on AWS. It presents a solution to monitor and control the usage of expensive database instances, and send alerts when non-compliant instances are detected.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Overview of the solution architecture involving AWS Config, Lambda, and SNS
- Step-by-step walkthrough to deploy the solution using CloudFormation
- Confirming SNS topic subscription and receiving alerts
- Testing the solution by creating a non-compliant RDS instance
- Cleaning up the deployed resources
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of custom AWS Config rules
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