# COST 9  How do you manage demand, and supply resources?
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For a workload that has balanced spend and performance, ensure that everything you pay for is used and avoid significantly underutilizing instances. A skewed utilization metric in either direction has an adverse impact on your organization, in either operational costs (degraded performance due to over-utilization), or wasted AWS expenditures (due to over-provisioning).

**Topics**
+ [COST09-BP01 Perform an analysis on the workload demand](cost_manage_demand_resources_cost_analysis.md)
+ [COST09-BP02 Implement a buffer or throttle to manage demand](cost_manage_demand_resources_buffer_throttle.md)
+ [COST09-BP03 Supply resources dynamically](cost_manage_demand_resources_dynamic.md)