Introduction Users of Amazon Web Services are likely familiar with some cloud cost managment  best practices, but probably not all of them. Consequently, we have compiled a list of the ten best practices to optimize AWS costs, and also suggest a solution that ensures the costs of using Amazon Web Services remain optimized. It’s not unusual to read headlines claiming businesses are overspending in the cloud, that a double-figure percentage of money is being wasted on unused services, or that millions of businesses provision resources with more capacity than they need. The most common “solutions” to the reported issues are rightsizing, scheduling, and purchasing Reserved Instances/Savings Plans for predictable workloads.…