NAT Gateways are one of the most silent budget killers on AWS. AWS finally added Compute Optimizer support to find idle ones — but the real fix is knowing when not to use them at all.
We analyzed an anonymized SaaS startup AWS bill and found three waste patterns costing $32k/month. Here is exactly what was wrong and how to fix it.
A healthcare company was spending $200k/year on NAT Gateways due to VPC architecture decisions made in 2019. Here is how we rewired their network and cut costs by 78%.
Data transfer is the most consistently underestimated cost in AWS architectures. It does not appear in compute estimates, it does not scale linearly, and it punishes microservices designs at exactly the moment growth feels like success.
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