Free checklist
Find What Your AWS Bill
Is Quietly Paying For
AWS bills for what you provision, not what you use, and it never sends a reminder. This checklist walks through the charges we find most often on small-team accounts. Work through it in about an hour with Cost Explorer open.
- 32 checks across compute, networking, storage, databases, logs and commitments
- The exact Cost Explorer view or console screen for each one
- What to do when you find it, and what to fix first
Free PDF · 3 pages
The AWS Bill Self-Audit Checklist
32 places AWS quietly charges you, where to find each one in Cost Explorer, and what to do about it.
What's inside
Built From Real Small-Team Audits
Compute that's bigger than it needs to be
How to spot oversized instances and containers, and the free AWS tool that sizes them for you.
The networking charges nobody reads
NAT gateways, public IPv4 and data transfer: often the fastest money back on a container stack.
When to commit, and how much
Savings Plans and reservations after rightsizing, so you don't lock in waste for a year.