2026
- July 4 - Your CloudWatch Logs never expire - and that is a growing bill
- July 4 - Over-provisioned DynamoDB: paying for capacity you never use
- July 4 - Idle Redshift clusters bill by the hour - even when nobody queries them
- July 4 - Old EBS snapshots: the backup pile quietly inflating your bill
- July 5 - Stop paying for unattached Elastic IPs and orphaned network interfaces
- July 5 - The $32/month surprise: finding and deleting idle NAT Gateways
- July 5 - Idle load balancers: the ~$16/month each you forgot to delete
- July 6 - Cut your AWS EBS bill ~20% by migrating gp2 to gp3
- July 23 - Case study: cutting $23,000/year from a production AWS bill, verified in Cost Explorer
- July 23 - The AWS cost optimization checklist: 9 fixes that actually move the bill
- July 25 - Graviton in 2026: the migration target moved to m8g, c8g, r8g
- July 25 - We ran 89 cost checks on one AWS account: $32,000/year in findings, ranked