Best practices to optimize costs after mergers and acquisitions with AWS Organizations

This article provides best practices for optimizing costs after mergers and acquisitions using AWS Organizations. It covers leveraging various AWS services and tools to identify and eliminate resource redundancies, optimize compute and storage costs, manage networking infrastructure, support and licensing costs, and continuously monitor costs.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Evaluating cost allocation tags and resource grouping
• Identifying and reducing resource redundancy using Cost Optimization Hub, Trusted Advisor, and Config
• Optimizing compute costs with AWS Compute Optimizer and Reserved Instances
• Developing a consolidated data archiving and storage strategy with S3 Storage Lens and AWS Backup
• Optimizing networking infrastructure and data transfer
• Managing support and software license costs with Enterprise Support and AWS License Manager
• Continuously monitoring and optimizing costs with CloudWatch, Budgets, and automation
• Documenting cost management processes and leveraging AWS re:Post Private
• Integrating services with AWS Organizations for volume discounts