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8 posts tagged "Cost Optimization"

Amazon MQ Pricing: What's Really on Your Bill

Amazon MQ looks simple on the bill until you pull it apart. Here's where the money goes — broker instances, HA costs, storage, and the idle broker problem.

March 26, 20264 min read

AWSAmazon MQServerless

Your OpenSearch Bill Is Bigger Than You Think: A Technical Cost Breakdown

OpenSearch spend is a composite of compute, storage, backups, and data movement. Here's how to model the full stack and find the dominant cost driver.

March 19, 20264 min read

AWSOpenSearchFinOps

The Silent $33/Month Charge: Understanding AWS NAT Gateway Costs

NAT Gateways quietly burn $32.85 per month each — whether they process a terabyte of data or zero bytes. Here's how to find and eliminate idle ones.

March 12, 20264 min read

AWSNAT GatewayFinOps

The Hidden Cost Layers of EC2 (And Why Stopped Instances Still Drain Your Budget)

EC2 looks simple on the bill — until you pull it apart. Here's where the real costs hide: EBS storage, snapshots, Elastic IPs, and the idle tax.

March 5, 20265 min read

AWSEC2EBS

How SageMaker Actually Bills: A Breakdown for Engineers

SageMaker has 12+ independent billing dimensions. This post breaks down every component — notebooks, training, endpoints, storage — with real numbers and the traps that catch experienced AWS engineers.

February 26, 202617 min read

AWSSageMakerMachine Learning

New Feature Alert: Cost Tracker

Product update from the CloudWise journey The Problem Many users struggled to monitor AWS...

October 31, 20251 min read

AWSCost OptimizationCloudwise

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection: When machine learning meets your billing

Building CloudWise has given me a unique view into AWS spending patterns across hundreds of...

October 29, 20251 min read

AWSFinOpsCost Optimization

CloudWise Free Forever: Why We Built AWS Cost

Optimization for Developers The Problem Every Developer Faces After analyzing $500K+ in...

October 28, 20251 min read

AWSFinOpsCost Optimization