Case study: cutting $23,000/year from a production AWS bill, verified in Cost Explorer
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Short version: we scanned a real production AWS account (~$10.7K/month, 1,084 resources in us-east-1), fixed six things, and cut $1,925.57/month. Every dollar was checked against AWS Cost Explorer billing data over three cycles. No production incidents. Here is what actually moved the bill.