How can I control and reduce AWS costs without hurting performance?

Right‑size instances, turn off idle environments, use savings plans for steady loads, apply S3 lifecycle policies, and tag everything. Review budgets and anomalies monthly and act on waste. Continuously measure cost per unit (visit, order, job) to keep spend tied to business value.

TL;DR

Cost & FinOps — RCCPI

Cost & FinOps

See, control, and continuously reduce cloud spend.

Quick wins

  • Right‑size instances; turn off idle dev/test
  • Use savings plans/reserved capacity for steady workloads
  • S3 lifecycle to cheaper tiers; purge unused snapshots
  • Add budgets and anomaly detection; tag everything

Monthly cost review

  • Top cost drivers by service
  • Wastage report & action items
  • Projected next‑month cost with planned changes

Next step

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