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Level 200: Rightsizing with Compute Optimizer

Last Updated

October 2021

Authors

Jeff Kassel, AWS Technical Account Manager
Arthur Basbaum, AWS Cloud Economics
Travis Ketcherside, AWS Technical Account Manager

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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 rightsizing exercises with the AWS Compute Optimizer.

Goals

Install and collect memory statistics through a custom metric using Amazon CloudWatch
Use AWS Compute Optimizer to gain insights into rightsizing recommendations on AWS

Prerequisites

Completion of Level 100: Rightsizing Recommendations
Enable AWS Compute Optimizer at no additional cost. After AWS Compute Optimizer is enabled it may take up to 12 hours to fully analyze the AWS resources in your account.

Costs

Use of AWS Compute Optimizer is free, but costs associated with CloudWatch and EC2 will be accrued once free tier usage is consumed. Please visit the CloudWatch and EC2 pricing pages for additional details.

Permissions required

IAM permissions for read-only access for AWS Compute Optimizer
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.