AWS Gives You Tools to Cut S3 Costs but Monitoring Has a Price

It's easy to create an S3 bucket, let objects pile up, and watch everything sit comfortably in the Standard class whether it's accessed a thousand times a day or has been its fourth abandonment anniversary. However, AWS gives you the tools to figure out where your money is actually going (they'll surely charge for it lol), and when used properly, they'll show you where to start cutting costs.

Getting the big picture with S3 Storage Lens

S3 Storage Lens is an organization-wide dashboard for your storage. It aggregates usage and activity across all your accounts, regions, and buckets into a single place. So instead of clicking through buckets one by one to answer questions such as "Which buckets hold most of my data?" you get a unified view with filters to precisely help you with that.

The good thing is that every account gets a default dashboard with free metrics,...

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