
Cost visibility
The AWS Costs Hiding in Plain Sight
Idle EC2 instances, forgotten EBS volumes, quiet load balancers and NAT gateways. Here’s where AWS waste hides, and how to clean it up safely.
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BudgieBlogPractical AWS cost optimization, minus the fluff.
Hands-on guidance for engineers who own an AWS bill. Every article shows how to check the evidence before you change anything.

Idle EC2 instances, forgotten EBS volumes, quiet load balancers and NAT gateways. Here’s where AWS waste hides, and how to clean it up safely.
5 min read

Low CPU doesn’t mean an instance is oversized. Check memory, network, disk I/O, and burst credits before you shrink an EC2 instance.
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Your dev environment doesn’t need to run 24/7. Here’s how to schedule AWS databases and compute after hours, and what to watch for.
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