COST01-BP07 Keep up-to-date with new service releases - AWS Well-Architected Framework (2023-04-10)
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COST01-BP07 Keep up-to-date with new service releases

Consult regularly with experts or AWS Partners to consider which services and features provide lower cost. Review AWS blogs and other information sources.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium

Implementation guidance

AWS is constantly adding new capabilities so you can leverage the latest technologies to experiment and innovate more quickly. You may be able to implement new AWS services and features to increase cost efficiency in your workload. Regularly review AWS Cost Management, the AWS News Blog, the AWS Cost Management blog, and What’s New with AWS for information on new service and feature releases. What's New posts provide a brief overview of all AWS service, feature, and Region expansion announcements as they are released.

Implementation steps

  • Subscribe to blogs: Go to the AWS blogs pages and subscribe to the What's New Blog and other relevant blogs. You can sign up on the communication preference page with your email address.

  • Subscribe to AWS News: Regularly review the AWS News Blog and What’s New with AWS for information on new service and feature releases. Subscribe to the RSS feed, or with your email to follow announcements and releases.

  • Follow AWS Price Reductions: Regular price cuts on all our services has been a standard way for AWS to pass on the economic efficiencies to our customers gained from our scale. As of April 2022, AWS has reduced prices 115 times since it was launched in 2006. If you have any pending business decisions due to price concerns, you can review them again after price reductions and new service integrations. You can learn about the previous price reductions efforts, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, in the price-reduction category of the AWS News Blog.

  • AWS events and meetups: Attend your local AWS summit, and any local meetups with other organizations from your local area. If you cannot attend in person, try to attend virtual events to hear more from AWS experts and other customers’ business cases.

  • Meet with your account team: Schedule a regular cadence with your account team, meet with them and discuss industry trends and AWS services. Speak with your account manager, Solutions Architect, and support team.

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