before you buy a single savings plan, sweep the free money. none of it needs a commitment and all of it is just sitting there.
unattached EBS volumes still billing. old snapshots nobody deletes. idle public IPv4 — $0.005/hr each since feb 2024, attached or not. and untagged spend, because you can't cut what you can't see.
clean the dead weight first. then size the commitment to a real baseline.
https://rajesh.medampudi.com/blog/audit-50k-aws-bill
unattached EBS volumes still billing. old snapshots nobody deletes. idle public IPv4 — $0.005/hr each since feb 2024, attached or not. and untagged spend, because you can't cut what you can't see.
clean the dead weight first. then size the commitment to a real baseline.
https://rajesh.medampudi.com/blog/audit-50k-aws-bill