Podcast
AWS Waste Teardowns
Short, technical teardowns of where AWS bills quietly leak. One waste pattern per episode: the billing mechanics, how to spot it yourself, and the safe fix.
Episodes are produced with AI-generated hosts from AWS documentation and pricing pages, and each one is reviewed for accuracy before it is published.
Episode 10 · October 12, 2026
Unattached Elastic IPs: Why AWS Bills Them and How to Release Them Safely
Episode 9 · October 12, 2026
Idle SageMaker Real-Time Endpoints Bill Every Hour, Even With Zero Traffic
Episode 8 · October 12, 2026
Unused VPC Interface Endpoints: About $22 a Month Each, and Why Deleting One Is Risky
Episode 7 · October 12, 2026
Idle RDS Instances: Why Stopping Isn't Enough and How to Delete Safely
Episode 6 · October 12, 2026
Idle NAT Gateways: $32 a Month for Nothing, and How to Remove One Safely
Episode 5 · October 12, 2026
Converting EBS gp2 to gp3: Why Large Volumes Save Less Than 20 Percent
Episode 4 · October 12, 2026
Idle Application Load Balancers: The Hourly Charge for Doing Nothing
Episode 3 · October 12, 2026
EBS Snapshot Sprawl: Why Deleting or Archiving Old Snapshots Often Saves Less
Episode 2 · October 12, 2026
CloudWatch Logs Never Expire by Default: The Storage Bill That Keeps Growing
Episode 1 · October 12, 2026
ECR Images With No Lifecycle Policy: Storage Costs and Safe Expiry Rules
Find these waste patterns in your own account, read-only, on your own machine: pip install cloudcostwise