Cost Saving Opportunities
Find actionable ways to reduce cloud costs by identifying idle, unused, or untagged resources across providers.
About this report
Turn your cloud bill into an action plan with specific, high-impact saving opportunities across providers. Finance and engineering teams get concrete recommendations for eliminating waste without service disruption, helping you immediately reduce unnecessary spending.
Key questions
- Where are we wasting money in our cloud infrastructure?
- Which unused resources can we safely remove?
- How can we optimize our cloud spending without service disruption?
- What specific actions would yield the biggest cost savings?
Visualizations in the report
Unattached disks
Lists storage volumes not connected to any instance. These orphaned resources continue incurring charges despite providing no value.
Unused public IP addresses
Identifies reserved IP addresses not assigned to resources. Each idle IP represents a small but unnecessary recurring charge that adds up over time.
Forgotten Snapshots & Backups
Shows old backups you're still paying to store. Implement proper retention policies to automatically remove these outdated resources.
Unused Load Balancers
Highlights load balancers with no backend targets or traffic. These idle resources often cost $20+ per month while providing no value.
Identify resources without a "Cost Center" tag
Finds resources missing proper financial attribution. Improve cost governance by ensuring every resource has clear ownership.
Find resources without an "Owner" tag
Shows assets missing accountability metadata. These unowned resources often represent the highest risk of waste.
Detect resources without an "Environment" tag
Lists items without deployment context tags. Proper environment tagging is essential for cost allocation and governance.
Expired Savings Plans that need renewal
Alerts you to expired discount commitments. Avoid paying higher on-demand rates by promptly renewing these savings opportunities.
EC2 instances that are not using Graviton processors
Identifies workloads eligible for ARM migration. These instances could see 20%+ cost reduction by moving to Graviton.
RDS idle instances
Reveals database instances with minimal activity. These databases are prime candidates for downgrading or consolidation.
EBS Volumes that can be modernized from gp2 to gp3
Lists storage volumes that could be migrated to newer generation. These no-risk migrations typically reduce costs by 20% without performance impact.
Idle ELBs
Shows load balancers receiving little or no traffic. Remove these unused resources for immediate monthly savings.
Kinesis Idle Streams
Identifies data streams with minimal activity. Streaming infrastructure often has high baseline costs even when barely used.
Overprovisioned EBS volumes attached to stopped EC2 GP3 instances
Finds unused storage still incurring charges. These resources continue billing even when the attached instances are stopped.
GCP BigQuery tables without partitioning enabled
Lists analytics tables without cost-efficiency features enabled. Implementing partitioning can dramatically reduce query costs for large datasets.
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