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See our Onboarding checklist for guidance and best practices when getting started with AWS.

AWS allows customers to assign metadata to their resources in the form of tags. Each tag is a simple label consisting of a customer-defined key and an optional value.

CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes an optimize resource utilization.

AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.

AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

Amazon Reserved Instances (RI) provide a significant discount compared to On-Demand pricing.

AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.