This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- How AWS Trusted Advisor provides high-level checks to identify idle and underutilized resources.

- The role of AWS Compute Optimizer in offering specific, machine learning-driven right-sizing recommendations.

- Using Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering to automatically optimize storage costs for objects with unknown or changing access patterns.

- The concept of right-sizing as the process of matching resource provisioning to actual workload demand.

- When to correctly use Spot Instances for fault-tolerant workloads to achieve significant cost savings, and when to avoid them.

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