Practical, service-by-service guides to the waste that quietly runs up an AWS bill, how to spot each one, and how to fix it. Every pattern here is something Cloud Cost Analyzer detects automatically.
Idle gateways and avoidable data-processing charges, one per AZ.
Read the guideOver-provisioned classes, non-Graviton, and Multi-AZ on non-prod.
Read the guideOrphaned volumes, old snapshots, and gp2 you never moved to gp3.
Read the guideALBs and NLBs with no targets or near-zero traffic, still billing.
Read the guideCold data sitting in Standard with no lifecycle policy.
Read the guideIdle and oversized instances, previous-gen types, 24/7 dev boxes.
Read the guideOversized instances, Serverless v1, and I/O-Optimized breakevens.
Read the guideIdle cache clusters and oversized, non-Graviton nodes.
Read the guideIdle distributions and price classes wider than your audience.
Read the guideOn-demand billing on steady workloads, and unused indexes.
Read the guideOver-provisioned memory and x86 functions that could be arm64.
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