Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization (12% of the exam content)
This domain accounts for 12% of the exam content.
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Task 6.1: Implement cost optimization strategies
Implement cost allocation tags.
Identify and remediate underutilized or unused resources by using services and tools (for example, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer).
Configure Budgets and billing alarms.
Assess resource usage patterns to qualify workloads for EC2 Spot Instances.
Identify opportunities to use managed services (for example, Amazon RDS, Fargate, Amazon EFS).
Task 6.2: Implement performance optimization strategies
Recommend compute resources based on performance metrics.
Monitor Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) metrics and modify configuration to increase performance efficiency.
Implement S3 performance features (for example, S3 Transfer Acceleration, multipart uploads).
Monitor RDS metrics and modify the configuration to increase performance efficiency (for example, Performance Insights, RDS Proxy).
Enable enhanced EC2 capabilities (for example, Elastic Network Adapter, instance store, placement groups).
