How I Saved $50K/Month in Cloud Costs
Two specific solutions that delivered $30K + $20K in monthly savings, with exact technologies and step-by-step implementation.
⚡ From the engineer who cut $50K/month
Your cloud bill is lying to you
I'm a cloud infrastructure engineer who slashed $50K/month from a real production bill — and documented every step. Here you'll find battle-tested guides, open source tools, and free calculators to help you do the same.
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// Free Calculators
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NAT Gateway Calculator
See how much VPC endpoints save vs. NAT Gateway. Most teams cut 80–91%.
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S3 vs R2 vs Backblaze
R2's zero-egress model saves 60–80% vs S3 for most storage workloads.
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Managed Database TCO
RDS vs Aurora vs PlanetScale vs Neon — real cost for your instance + I/O mix.
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AWS vs Azure vs GCP
Compare compute, storage, and egress across all three major clouds.
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Serverless Calculator
Lambda vs Azure Functions vs GCP vs Cloudflare Workers — real cost for your invocations + duration.
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EC2: On-Demand vs RI vs Spot
See exact savings from Reserved Instances and Spot across 20+ instance types.
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EBS Volume Cost Calculator
gp3 vs gp2 vs io2 — with full IOPS and throughput breakdowns. Stop paying gp2 prices.
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CDN Cost Calculator
CloudFront vs Cloudflare vs Fastly vs BunnyCDN — real costs for your bandwidth.
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FinOps Maturity Assessment
15 questions, 5 dimensions — score your cloud financial management maturity and get a personalized action plan.
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