AWS Cost Optimization: How to avoid "Cost Creep".
Last quarter, a manufacturing client reached out with a serious AWS cost optimization challenge. Their AWS bill had grown from $22,000 to $38,000 per month over eight months, with no business growth to justify the increase. The CFO was threatening to abandon their cloud initiative entirely. After conducting our comprehensive AWS cost optimization audit, we identified $200,000 in annual waste and eliminated it within one week. Here’s exactly what we found and how we fixed it.