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Cost Saving Opportunities

Find actionable ways to reduce cloud costs by identifying idle, unused, or untagged resources across providers.

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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.

Cost Saving Opportunities

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.

Unattached disks
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.

Unused public IP addresses
Forgotten Snapshots & Backups

Shows old backups you're still paying to store. Implement proper retention policies to automatically remove these outdated resources.

Forgotten Snapshots & Backups
Unused Load Balancers

Highlights load balancers with no backend targets or traffic. These idle resources often cost $20+ per month while providing no value.

Unused Load Balancers
Identify resources without a "Cost Center" tag

Finds resources missing proper financial attribution. Improve cost governance by ensuring every resource has clear ownership.

Identify resources without a "Cost Center" tag
Find resources without an "Owner" tag

Shows assets missing accountability metadata. These unowned resources often represent the highest risk of waste.

Find resources without an "Owner" tag
Detect resources without an "Environment" tag

Lists items without deployment context tags. Proper environment tagging is essential for cost allocation and governance.

Detect resources without an "Environment" tag
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.

EC2 instances that are not using Graviton processors
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.

EBS Volumes that can be modernized from gp2 to gp3
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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