AWS Cost Optimization & FinOps

Cost Control Is Architecture, Not Discounts

FinOps pillar guide

Cloud Cost Optimization in 2026: 8 Modern Strategies

FinOps pillar guide

Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans (2026)

FinOps pillar guide

Bill Teardown Series

Anonymized real bills — what went wrong and the exact fixes.

Teardown #1: SaaS $40k/mo overrun

NAT Gateway, orphaned EBS, oversized RDS — $28k/mo recovered.

Teardown #2: Healthcare NAT spend

$200k/year on NAT Gateways across three accounts.

Teardown #3: Retail data transfer trap

Holiday-season egress and cross-AZ patterns.

Teardown #4: Commitment leakage

Savings Plans in the wrong account — Group Sharing fixes.

Strategic FinOps Tools

Model savings, commitments, and waste before finance asks.

AWS Cost Savings Calculator

Enter monthly spend and workload mix for a personalized 20–40% savings estimate across EC2, RDS, S3, and networking.

Calculate savings

Savings Plans ROI Calculator

Compare 1-year vs 3-year Compute Savings Plans against On-Demand EC2 and RDS — side-by-side ROI.

Compare SP savings

Reserved Instance Break-Even

Find the break-even month and annual savings for EC2 On-Demand vs 1- and 3-year Reserved Instances.

Calculate break-even

AWS Cost Waste Quiz

Five quick questions on cost reviews, right-sizing, and commitments — get a waste risk score and fix-it list.

Get waste score

Scaling Cost Explosion Simulator

See your AWS bill at 2×, 5×, and 10× traffic — understand hypergrowth cost risk before it hits the P&L.

Simulate scaling

Commitment Level Optimizer

Find the optimal Savings Plans coverage level from your demand shape and baseline rates.

Optimize commitment

AWS Service Pricing Series

June 2026 — billing dimensions, traps, and calculator pairings where available.

Part 1: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Pricing

Includes Bedrock Token Cost Calculator

Part 2: Amazon EBS Pricing

Includes IOPS Cost Calculator

Part 3: AWS KMS Pricing

Includes KMS Pricing Calculator

Part 4: Amazon ECR Pricing

Includes ECS Pricing Calculator

Part 5: Amazon EFS Pricing

Includes EFS Pricing Calculator

Part 6: Amazon SQS Pricing

Includes SQS Pricing Calculator

Part 7: Amazon SNS Pricing

Includes SNS Pricing Calculator

Part 8: Amazon EventBridge Pricing

Includes EventBridge Pricing Calculator

Part 9: Amazon CloudWatch Pricing

Includes CloudWatch Pricing Calculator

Part 10: AWS CloudTrail Pricing

Includes CloudTrail Pricing Calculator

Part 11: Amazon VPC Pricing

Includes VPC Pricing Calculator

Part 12: Amazon GuardDuty Pricing

Includes GuardDuty Pricing Calculator

Part 13: AWS Backup Pricing

Includes AWS Backup Pricing Calculator

Part 14: Amazon Macie Pricing

Billing dimensions, traps, and cleanup plan

Part 15: Amazon Lightsail Pricing

Includes Lightsail Pricing Calculator

Part 16: Amazon MQ Pricing

Billing dimensions, traps, and cleanup plan

Part 17: Amazon DynamoDB Pricing

Includes DynamoDB Pricing Calculator

Part 18: Amazon Aurora Pricing

Includes Aurora Pricing Calculator

Part 19: Amazon EKS Pricing

Includes EKS Pricing Calculator

Part 20: Amazon CloudFront Pricing

Includes CloudFront Pricing Calculator

Part 21: AWS SageMaker AI Savings Plans

Billing dimensions, traps, and cleanup plan

Part 22: AWS CDK Cost Estimation

Billing dimensions, traps, and cleanup plan

Part 23: FinOps Shift-Left

Billing dimensions, traps, and cleanup plan

Part 24: Amazon EC2 On-Demand Pricing

Includes EC2 Pricing Calculator

Part 25: Amazon ElastiCache Pricing

Includes ElastiCache Pricing Calculator

Part 26: Amazon Fargate & ECS Task Pricing

Includes Fargate Pricing Calculator