Cost Efficiency

These are queries for AWS Services under the AWS Well-Architected Framework Cost Optimization Pillar.

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Cost Efficiency

AWS provides IT resources on-demand, which makes it easy for customers to stop and start resources and use only what they need to deliver on a business outcome. However, it can be difficult to assess exactly how resource efficient a workload is on AWS. This set of queries helps customers assess and understand how they use AWS resources. In the Sustainability Pillar of the Well Architected Framework, proxy metrics are introduced as a way to understand how to measure efficiency in a workload. Customers looking to optimize their workloads for sustainability (or understand their AWS usage in order to report for frameworks and standards like SASB), need to first understand what they have provisioned in AWS and then relate this to how much work they have done with those resources. This set of queries helps customers understand what they have provisioned in AWS as a necessary first step for optimization decisions in line with the Sustainability Pillar of the WA Framework.

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Data Processing Capacity

This query will display the usage hours of service(s) using compute and order by largest to smallest number of hours. The intention of this query is to provide a view into the aggregated processing capacity across all services. To obtain additional infromation on the type of resource and the amount of vcpu contributed by the resource uncomment the line_item_usage_type and product_vcpu columns.

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