AWS Right Sizing

• EC2 has many instance types, but choosing the most powerful instance type isn’t the

  best choice, because the cloud is elastic

• Right sizing is the process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload

  performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost

• Scaling up is easy so always start small

• It’s also the process of looking at deployed instances and identifying opportunities to eliminate or downsize without compromising capacity or other requirements, which results in lower costs

• It’s important to Right Size...

  • before a Cloud Migration

  • continuously after the cloud onboarding process (requirements change over time)

• CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, 3rd party tools can help