How to reduce your AWS bill
To reduce an AWS bill, find the top three services by cost, look for idle or oversized resources in each, and fix the largest safe items first.
- Sort last month’s spend by service.
- For compute: stop idle instances, right-size, move to current generations.
- For storage: delete unattached volumes and old snapshots; add S3 lifecycle rules.
- For networking: check NAT gateway and cross-region data transfer.
- Commit only to steady usage.
Try it on your own bill
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Findings are estimates from billing lines, not utilisation metrics. Check each one against usage and service needs before changing anything.