Streamline Amazon RDS management with consolidation techniques – Part 2

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This article introduces RDS Consolidator, an open-source tool for optimizing Amazon RDS database consolidation and cost savings.

RDS Consolidator analyzes RDS instances to identify consolidation opportunities and resource requirements
Tool collects configuration and CloudWatch metrics, generates CSV, feeds QuickSight dashboard
Identifies optimization opportunities: Graviton adoption, gp2 to gp3 migration, storage reduction
Calculates peak vCPU, average peak vCPU, required IOPS, and recommended storage/RAM
Example shows 44.9% cost savings by consolidating four instances into one r8g.4xlarge
Requires AWS CLI access, S3 bucket, and QuickSight author permissions for deployment
Open source and free; only costs are S3 storage and QuickSight author access

RDS Consolidator provides data-driven insights to safely consolidate databases while optimizing costs and resource utilization.

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