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AWS Cost-Cutting Checklist
A practical checklist for cutting your AWS bill without breaking production. Read the bill first, clear idle resources, right-size compute, commit carefully, then fix storage, databases and data transfer. Ends with a one-page checklist grouped by effort.
PDF · 12 pages · Updated October 2026
For: Founders, CTOs and finance leads whose AWS bill keeps rising.
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What’s inside.
- Before you cut: read your bill
- Quick wins this week
- Right-size compute
- Commitments
- Storage
- Databases
- Data transfer and networking
- Containers and serverless
- Keep it down
- A one-page checklist
What you’ll be able to do.
- Read the bill by service, account and usage type, and find the five lines that matter.
- Clear idle and forgotten resources this week: volumes, snapshots, IPs, NAT gateways.
- Right-size compute on evidence, and move to current instance generations.
- Size Savings Plans and Reserved Instances from your steady baseline, not your peak.
- Stop data transfer surprises, and set budgets and alerts so the bill stays down.
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