Compute rightsizing
Review EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and database usage for resources that may be larger than current demand requires.
AWS cost cutting
AWS Cost Cutting Consulting
AWS cost cutting should start with evidence, not guesses. Housatonic Cloud reviews your main cost drivers and identifies practical ways to reduce spend without creating avoidable operational risk.
The goal is not to slash infrastructure blindly. The goal is to separate necessary AWS spend from waste, drift, stale resources, and sizing choices that no longer match how your systems actually run.
Where AWS cost cutting usually starts
Storage cleanup
Look for EBS volumes, snapshots, backups, S3 storage classes, and retention settings that have grown without review.
Network and transfer costs
Identify NAT, data transfer, CloudFront, and cross-zone traffic patterns that can quietly increase recurring spend.
Monitoring and logs
Check CloudWatch logs, metrics, retention, and observability settings for costs that outgrew their original purpose.
A conservative cost cutting approach
- Start with read-only access and billing visibility where possible.
- Rank recommendations by likely savings, implementation effort, and operational caution.
- Prefer changes that can be reviewed, rolled out carefully, and monitored after implementation.
- Avoid unsupported claims about savings before the actual AWS environment is reviewed.
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