AWS Compute Optimizer Cheat Sheet

• A service that recommends optimal AWS resources to reduce costs and improve performance of your workloads.

• Uses machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics.

• You can view findings and recommendations across AWS Regions and accounts.



• Generates recommendations for the following resources:

  • Amazon EC2 instances

  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups

  • Amazon EBS volumes

  • AWS Lambda functions

Concepts

• Recommendation preferences are features that you can activate to enhance or augment the recommendations generated for your resources.

  • Enhanced infrastructure metrics – extends the look-back period for utilization metrics analysis to three months.

  • Inferred workload type – identify the effort to migrate workloads from x86-based to Arm-based AWS Graviton instances types.

  • AWS Graviton-based instance recommendations – provides price and performance impact.

• Delegated Administrator

  • You can delegate a member account in your organization as an administrator.

  • There can only be one delegated administrator per organization.

  • The delegated administrator can do the following:

    • Get and export recommendations

    • Get projected utilization metrics

    • Set recommendation preferences

    • Set member account opt-in status

  • You can use AWS console and CLI to register and remove an account as a delegated administrator.

• The dashboard allows you to view the optimization findings for your AWS resources across all AWS Regions.

• You can also export and share your recommendations to an Amazon S3 bucket.

AWS Compute Optimizer Pricing

• You are charged for the enhanced infrastructure metrics per resource.

• You are charged based on the number of hours the resource runs.

AWS Compute Optimizer Cheat Sheet References:

https://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/latest/ug/what-is-compute-optimizer.html