Cloud Cost Optimization: A Practical AWS Cost Audit Checklist
Use this practical AWS cost audit checklist to map spend, rightsize resources, clean idle waste, and build FinOps habits for lasting cloud cost optimization.
Cut waste in cloud bills while keeping performance and release habits intact. I audit usage, prioritize reversible changes, and leave you with budgets and alerts, not a one-time slide deck.
Cloud waste usually looks boring: oversized instances, always-on staging, unattached disks, on-demand pricing for steady workloads, and egress nobody mapped. I treat cost work like engineering: evidence first, reversible changes next, monitoring last so the savings stick.
Use this page when the goal is lower cloud spend and clearer FinOps habits. Use Cloud Infrastructure Development when you need to build and operate the platform itself. I do not invent client logos or savings figures on this site.
Technologies I use to build modern full-stack web applications.
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Read-only review of recent spend across accounts, projects, or subscriptions to map where money actually goes.
Match instances, databases, and containers to measured usage instead of oversized defaults.
Apply Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, or committed use only where workloads are steady enough to justify them.
Find unused disks, snapshots, load balancers, IPs, and forgotten environments that keep charging after the project moved on.
Lifecycle cold data, tighten transfer paths, and reduce surprise egress without breaking product latency goals.
Tune Lambda/Cloud Run/Fargate/Kubernetes sizing, concurrency, and scheduling so idle capacity is not the default bill.
Right-size replicas, storage classes, and query hotspots that inflate I/O and instance tiers.
Budgets, anomaly alerts, tagging, and a review cadence so new waste is caught on the next invoice, not a year later.
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