Controlling cloud costs is a top cloud challenge for organizations. Many companies are currently overspending, with EC2 often the most expensive item on your AWS bill.

That’s where rightsizing comes in. By analyzing historical usage and performance, you can identify and rightsize instances that are not consuming all the resources currently available to them.

Rightsizing these resources to their proper level goes a long way toward taming cloud costs — that’s why we wrote this comprehensive, hands-on guide based on our insights continually optimizing $1.5 billion in cloud spend.