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

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