Reduce AWS Control Tower costs with these tips
Set up and govern a secure, compliant multi-account environment
AWS Control Tower cost saving tips
Optimize your AWS Control Tower costs with these tips
Delete Unused Accounts
Accounts provisioned by AWS Control Tower have standard AWS service costs. To save, delete the accounts that are no longer required or used.
Optimize AWS Config
Reduce the number of recorded resource types and delete unnecessary rules in your AWS Config. This prevents unwanted costs for resources not being evaluated actively.
Leverage Cost Explorer
Utilize AWS Cost Explorer to assess usage trends and rightsizing chances. This lets you adjust services like EC2 instances to optimize costs over time.
Service information & pricing
About AWS Control Tower
- About AWS Control Tower
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AWS Control Tower is a cloud management service that lets organizations establish and supervise a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It automates AWS account creation and incorporates governance, enabling adherence to regulatory requirements, best practices, and standards, fast application deployment, and compliance. It also supports digital sovereignty, guaranteeing thorough data residency, access limitation, encryption, and resiliency.
- AWS Control Tower pricing
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AWS Control Tower itself has no extra charges, but costs are incurred for AWS services used such as AWS Service Catalog, CloudTrail, Config, Amazon CloudWatch, SNS, S3, and Amazon VPC. AWS Organizations and IAM Identity Center are cost-free. Cost varies with service usage. For example, enabling public subnets in Control Tower needs Amazon VPC that is billed per usage. Temporary workloads can increase Config costs.