Free Checklist

12 AWS Mistakes
Killing Your Budget

The most expensive mistakes I see in cloud setups — and how to fix each one in under a day. Based on real audits across startups and enterprises.

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What's inside

12 mistakes, 12 quick fixes

Oversized EC2 instances running 24/7

Right-size using Compute Optimizer and save 20%+ with Graviton.

No Savings Plans for predictable workloads

Stop paying hotel rates for your permanent residence.

Zombie resources on your bill

Idle load balancers, unattached volumes, forgotten snapshots.

CloudWatch logs retained forever

Terabytes of debug logs costing hundreds per month.

NAT Gateway data transfer surprises

One of the most surprising line items on any AWS bill.

Oversized RDS with no query tuning

Slow queries force bigger instances. Fix the queries first.

S3 costs creeping up invisibly

No lifecycle policies means storage grows forever.

Kubernetes nodes at 30% utilisation

Cluster Autoscaler misconfigured or missing entirely.

Cross-region data transfer costs

Chatty microservices racking up transfer charges silently.

No cost alerts or budgets

You find out about spikes when the invoice arrives.

Plus 5 bonus tips — including how to get free AWS credits, where to add caching for instant savings, and why tagging is the foundation of cost control.

Who is this for?

CTOs and engineering leads managing AWS infrastructure

Teams spending $2K–50K/month on cloud and suspect waste

Startups scaling fast with costs growing faster

Anyone who hasn't reviewed their AWS bill in the last 3 months

Stop overpaying for AWS

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