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Reducing AWS Costs - Learn to slash your AWS bill! (Udemy.com)

Use simple changes such as reserved instances and right sizing or more complex design options to slash your AWS bill.

4.5
329 reviews

Created by: Rick Crisci

Last updated April 2025

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What you will learn

  • Learn how to use AWS pricing plans and design principles to reduce costs
  • Save money on services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Transfer Charges, EBS, and more!
  • Set up billing alerts and monitor free tier usage.
  • Use Savings Plans to easily cut EC2, Lambda, and Fargate costs
  • Understand transfer costs and how to reduce them

How it compares

Against the other 235 rated Udemy courses in AWS on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 43% of them
  • Reviews329#165 of 236 by number of reviews
  • Length3.1 hoursshorter than 86% of them
  • Last updatedApril 2025more recently than 56% of them

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Course Description

"Very helpful course."  - Vineet

"Awesome content for AWS Cost Optimization."  - Seshadri


I have taught hundreds of thousands of students across a variety of platforms, and I think anyone who needs to lower their AWS costs will love this course.  This course will give you a strong foundation and is the ideal starting point.


Are your AWS bills higher than expected? Many times, this is not a result of the services running, but the pricing models you are using. In this course, you will learn how to slash your AWS bill. Topics covered include:

  • Basic AWS cost management, including Budgets, the Free Tier, Cost Explorer, and Trusted Advisor

  • Reducing EC2 costs with right-sizing, Spot Instances, Reserved Instances, and Autoscaling

  • Cutting EBS and Snapshot costs using CloudWatch and Data LifeCycle Manager

  • Understand S3 Storage Classes, and S3 Analytics, LifeCycles Rules, and Intelligent Tiering

  • Learn how to reduce VPC and Transfer Charges

  • Use Caching Solutions like DynamoDB accelerator, CloudFront, and Elasticache to improve performance and reduce costs

  • Set up a Savings Plan to easily realize huge savings on EC2, Lambda, and Fargate

You can begin this course now so don't wait - give this course a try and learn how to lower your AWS costs!
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Instructor Details

Rick Crisci

I am the owner of TrainerTests and have delivered thousands of hours of official live training to my students, and I love teaching people new skills.

I provide video training unlike any other organization. I believe in using high quality illustrations and animations to simplify complex concepts. In my courses you will get the technical depth that you need, with a focus on making sure that you completely understand the underlying concepts.

Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, I always enjoy making new contacts with my students!

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4.5

329 ratings on Udemy

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By Yashwant on 7/22/2026

great way to learn about AWS cost explorer coupled with real time examples of various dashboard and explained in very simple language

By Bini Antony on 3/24/2026

Demos are excellent. Course topics is comprehensive and super-helpful.

By Marcio Roberto Stefani on 11/7/2025

even the AWS interface is an old one (sometimes cannot follow), I will give it a 5 because the content and contribution to right size, right cost, was extremely helpful. Congratulations!

By Harsha Lakkamraju on 9/10/2025

I would actually expect a little more detailed explanations and more demos

By Ramesh Palaniyandi on 9/1/2024

Good course. Topics explained clearly and very useful

By Juzer Kothawala on 6/7/2024

Really Liked the way it was explained in detailed

By Anonymized User on 12/14/2023

Explained everything really well with Great examples !

By Anonymized User on 11/22/2023

Good. Communicates clearly, but video quality is not the best.

By Rachel Sullivan on 1/13/2023

Nice summary of cost-saving options. Personally didn't find much new info here that I haven't heard before but it could be a good reference to refer back to when trying to cut budget.

By Robin L Belen on 1/31/2022

some videos would not play properly..kept restarting. Otherwise excellent

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  • Updated: icon April 2025
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