Cloud
Cutting AWS bills by 38% without breaking prod
2025-02-04 · 8 min read · By Rise Routes Team
Our exact FinOps audit checklist — savings plans, autoscaling, storage tiers.
AWS bills creep. Every quarter we audit cloud spend for clients and consistently find 25–40% in safe savings.
Compute: right-size instances, adopt Graviton where workloads support it, and lock in 1-year Savings Plans on the steady baseline.
Storage: move cold S3 data to Intelligent-Tiering or Glacier; expire old EBS snapshots; archive old logs.
Networking: NAT gateway egress and inter-AZ traffic are silent killers — VPC endpoints often pay for themselves in weeks.
Observability: turn on cost anomaly detection. Tag every resource. Make spend a first-class engineering metric.