Managing Costs

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Current Cost

how much am I spending?

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Different Time Units

how much per day?

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Project Monthly Cost

project the monthly cost

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Cost Breakdown

show me cost breakdown by service

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Before Changes

how much would it cost to add 2 more instances?

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Compare Clouds

how much would this cost on DigitalOcean instead of AWS?

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Compare Regions

which region is cheaper for this workload?

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Cost by Project

show me costs by project

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What Monk Tracks

• Virtual machines
• Databases
• Storage
• Networking (load balancers, data transfer)
• All cloud services

• Managed databases (RDS, Cloud SQL)
• Managed services (Redis Cloud, MongoDB Atlas)
• Third-party APIs

• Real-time pricing data
• Up-to-date rate tables
• Actual resource uptime

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Cost Optimization

how can I reduce costs?
what's using the most money?
recommend cheaper alternatives

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Next Steps

• Managing Infrastructure - Optimize resources
• Scaling Resources - Right-size infrastructure
• Migrating Between Clouds - Move to cheaper provider