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We ran 89 cost checks on one AWS account: $32,000/year in findings, ranked

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Founder, Dragon Fractal · ex-AWS engineer

Short version: we pointed all 89 checks at one real AWS account, 1,358 resources in a single region. The scan returned 403 findings worth about $2,681/month, roughly $32,000/year, in potential savings. This is the raw surface area of waste a single account carries. It is not a promise you will bank all of it, and below I am going to be honest about why.

Case study: cutting $23,000/year from a production AWS bill, verified in Cost Explorer

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Founder, Dragon Fractal · ex-AWS engineer

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.