Thursday, 17 October 2024

AWS Compute Optimizer LAB

 AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that analyzes your EC2 instances and provides recommendations to optimize their performance and cost. It helps you identify underutilized instances, rightsize your instances, and choose the most cost-effective instance types.

Prerequisites

  • An AWS account
  • Running EC2 instances

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Enable Compute Optimizer

  • Launch Compute Optimizer: In the AWS Management Console, search for "Compute Optimizer" and launch the service.
  • Enable Compute Optimizer: Enable Compute Optimizer for your account.
  • Image of AWS Compute Optimizer Enable screen

2. View Recommendations

  • View Recommendations: After Compute Optimizer analyzes your EC2 instances, you can view the recommendations in the console.
  • Image of AWS Compute Optimizer Recommendations screen

3. Analyze Recommendations

  • Analyze Recommendations: Review the recommendations provided by Compute Optimizer. The recommendations will include suggestions for rightsizing instances, choosing more cost-effective instance types, and optimizing instance configurations.

4. Take Action

  • Take Action: Based on the recommendations, you can take the following actions:
    • Rightsize Instances: Modify the instance type of underutilized instances.
    • Optimize Configurations: Adjust instance configurations (e.g., CPU credits, memory, storage) to improve performance and cost-efficiency.
    • Choose More Cost-Effective Instances: Select more cost-effective instance types for your workloads.

5. Monitor and Refine

  • Monitor and Refine: Continuously monitor your EC2 instances and refine your optimization strategies based on the recommendations provided by Compute Optimizer.

Additional Considerations

  • Custom Metrics: Provide custom metrics to Compute Optimizer for more accurate recommendations.
  • Scheduling: Schedule Compute Optimizer to analyze your instances at regular intervals.
  • Integration: Integrate Compute Optimizer with other AWS services like CloudWatch and Cost Explorer for comprehensive monitoring and cost analysis.

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