Level 200: Cost Journey

Last Updated

March 2021

Authors

  • Nathan Besh, Cost Lead Well-Architected (AWS)
  • Tom McMeekin, Solutions Architect (AWS)

Feedback

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Introduction

In this lab you will create your organizations cost optimization journey. It will show you where your workload and organization is currently at, in terms of capability, and what lies ahead - so you can plan and resource accordingly.

The lab will create a lambda function, which reads all the AWS Well-Architected reviews in the account, and produce a webpage with an image showing your journey, as below.

Images/journey.png

Goals

  • Create a cost optimization journey for each workload with a Well-Architected review

Prerequisites

  • Performed at least one AWS Well-Architected review on a workload

Permissions required

  • Create and manage an S3 bucket
  • Create an IAM role to run a lambda function
  • Create and run a lambda function
  • Access to the Well-Architected service

Costs

  • Estimated costs are <$5 for an average customer (lambda execution, s3 storage)

Time to complete

  • 15minutes

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