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7 places your 2027 budget is hiding in your AWS bill

Your roadmap is growing. Your budget might not be. Before you cut a single project, open your AWS bill. In this free checklist our CTO shows you where to look, in seven two-minute checks.

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What's in the AWS budget checklist

Most AWS bills hide money in the same few places. This short checklist takes you through seven of them. For each one you get where to look in your AWS bill, what to check and what to do about it. Every check takes about two minutes.

The seven areas it covers, each a place AWS budget tends to hide:

  1. Old database and cluster versions

  2. S3 storage

  3. gp2 EBS disks

  4. Aurora I/O

  5. ElastiCache

  6. Databases and Lambda on Graviton

  7. Dev and test environments

What you get

  • Find budget you already have, before you ask for a new dollar

  • Know exactly where to look: every check starts in your AWS bill

  • See what each fix is worth, with figures from AWS's own pricing pages

  • Hand your team a short list they can act on straight away

  • See how to right-size and commit at once, instead of one after the other

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Who it's for

CTOs, CIOs, Heads of Cloud and other tech leaders who need to deliver more in 2027 without a bigger budget, and who want a story they can take to finance and the board.

Quick answers

Yes. Fill in the short form and download it.

Each of the seven checks takes about two minutes.

CTOs, CIOs, Heads of Cloud and other tech leaders who need to deliver more in 2027 without a bigger budget.

No. You run the checks yourself, in your own AWS bill.

Yes. We run a free savings analysis on your AWS bill.

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The result ended up being better than originally estimated and, after a ~15 minute onboarding, has required virtually no time from our team. I sometimes forget Cloud Family is even there.

Joel Bernerman, Platform/DevOps Engineer at CarbonCloud Joel Bernerman
Platform/DevOps Engineer, CarbonCloud
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