7 proven ways to cut your AWS bill by up to 40%

Most organisations over-provision the cloud out of caution — and pay for it every month. The good news: a structured FinOps approach routinely recovers 30–40% of spend within the first billing cycle.

1. Right-size relentlessly

Match instance types and sizes to real utilisation. Idle and oversized compute is the single largest source of waste we find in audits.

2. Commit with Savings Plans & Reserved Instances

Predictable workloads should never run fully on-demand. Blended commitments typically save 20–50% on steady-state compute.

3. Kill zombie resources

• Unattached EBS volumes and old snapshots
• Idle load balancers and NAT gateways
• Forgotten dev/test environments running 24/7

4. Automate scheduling

Non-production environments rarely need to run outside business hours. Automated start/stop schedules cut their cost by 60–70%.

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