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Establishing Cost Visibility for an Early-Stage Startup

Context

  • Small AWS environment
  • EC2, RDS, S3
  • Fast iteration

Challenge

No clear understanding of cost drivers and future growth impact.

Assessment Approach

Cost baseline creation and fast-win identification.

Key Findings

  • Flat instance sizing
  • No budgets or alerts
  • Manual resource management

Recommendations

  • Right-size instances
  • Add budgets and alerts
  • Basic automation

Outcome

  • Cost visibility
  • Reduced risk of runaway spend