AWS Cost Optimization: 5 Ways to Find and Cut Waste
Your AWS bill climbed again this month, even though traffic stayed flat and nobody shipped anything substantial. That gap between the infrastructure you think you are running and the infrastructure you are actually paying for is where nearly all cloud waste accumulates, and closing it rarely requires the kind of rewrite that most cost-cutting conversations end up circling around.
Most advice on this topic stops at turning on Cost Explorer and tagging your resources, which is reasonable enough as a starting point and does very little once you have done it. What follows instead is five specific changes with published before-and-after numbers behind them, along with the reasoning you need to work out which of the five actually apply to your environment.
Why does an AWS bill grow when nothing changed?
Costs drift upward because defaults accumulate quietly. Every service you launch arrives with a default runtime, a default instance...
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