Level 200: EC2 Right Sizing

Authors

  • Jeff Kassel, AWS Technical Account Manager
  • Arthur Basbaum, AWS Cloud Economics

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Introduction

This hands-on lab will guide you through the steps to install the CloudWatch agent to collect memory utilization (% GB consumption) and analyze how that new datapoint can help during EC2 right sizing exercises with the AWS Resource Optimization tool.

Goals

  • Learn how to check metrics like CPU, Network and Disk usage on Amazon CloudWatch
  • Learn how to install and collect Memory data through a custom metric at Amazon CloudWatch
  • Enable AWS Resource Optimization and observe how the recommendations are impacted by this new datapoint (Memory)

Prerequisites

  • Root user access to the management account
  • Enable AWS Resource Optimization at AWS Cost Explorer > Recommendations no additional cost.

Permissions required

  • Root user access to the management account
  • NOTE: There may be permission error messages during the lab, as the console may require additional privileges. These errors will not impact the lab, and we follow security best practices by implementing the minimum set of privileges required.

Steps: