- AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that analyzes our AWS resources' configuration and utilization metrics to provide us with rightsizing recommendations
- Generates optimization recommendations to reduce the cost and improve the performance of your workloads
- Supported resources and requirements:
- EC2 instances
- Auto Scaling Groups
- EBS volumes
- Lambda functions
- ECS and ECS Fargate
- Commercial Software Licenses
- RDS DB instances and storage
- Compute Optimizer is opt-in
- Analyzing metrics: after opt in, Compute Optimizer begins analyzing the specifications and the utilization metrics of resources from Amazon CloudWatch for the last 14 days
- Enhancing recommendations: we can enhance recommendations by activating recommendation preferences, such as the enhanced infrastructure metrics paid feature