Cost Optimization

Where the waste hides: anatomy of a cloud cost audit

Cloud cost audits turn up the same findings in a fairly predictable order. Here is that order, ranked by how much is typically recovered.

Idle non-production environments come first, almost every time. Staging running around the clock at production size is the single most common line item, and moving it to a schedule recovers more than any reserved-instance strategy.

Second: over-provisioned compute — instances sized for a load test that ran once and was never revisited. Third: unattached storage and orphaned snapshots, which accumulate quietly and rarely appear on anyone's dashboard.

Then inter-zone data transfer, forgotten managed services, and finally commitment coverage — which is where most teams start, and where the least money usually is.

None of this needs a tool you do not already have. It needs someone whose job it is to look.

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