by John Lukach
Cost plays such a huge part in managing a cloud environment, where I wanted to try the Cost Optimizer Hub feature.
The UI should have taken me to the AWS Compute Optimizer as the initial setup step.
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I skipped the Automation feature for now.
I enabled USE1, USE2, and USW2 to provide savings recommendations.
tags: aws - budget - compute - optimizer