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Optimize your AWS costs with Cloud Cost Recommendations

Blog post from Datadog

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Date Published
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Kayla Taylor, Ashwin Venkatesan
Word Count
1,139
Language
English
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Summary

Cloud Cost Recommendations is a feature of Datadog Cloud Cost Management that helps users identify and optimize AWS cost inefficiencies. It automatically detects legacy services, unused resources, and over-provisioned workloads, providing customized guidance for optimization. The tool offers recommendations to migrate to current-generation AWS services, delete unused resources, downsize over-provisioned workloads, and provides visibility into cloud spend and optimization efforts. Cloud Cost Recommendations draws on five-second granularity of cost and performance data from AWS resources and is now available in public beta, allowing users to quickly execute AWS cost optimizations and foster a culture of cost awareness.