Savings Scenarios

Explore and apply cost-saving opportunities based on risk appetite.

Total Opportunity

$88,200/mo

$18,200 Safe to apply immediately

Safe

LOW RISK

Low-risk optimizations that do not affect application performance or availability.

$18,200

Balanced

MEDIUM RISK

Moderate changes involving spot instances and some architectural tweaks.

$28,500

Aggressive

HIGH RISK

High-impact changes that may require application refactoring or reduced redundancy.

$41,500

Safe Savings Path

$18,200 • Implementation: Immediate

Storage Cleanup

Delete unattached EBS volumes older than 30 days.

Scanning region us-east-1 for orphaned volumes......

$4,200/mo
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Rightsizing

Downsize RDS instances with <5% CPU utilization.

Analyzing RDS metrics (30d history)......

$8,500/mo
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Reserved Instances

Purchase RIs for steady-state production workloads.

Evaluating EC2 usage patterns......

$5,500/mo
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Balanced Savings Path

$28,500 • Implementation: 1-2 Weeks

Spot Instances

Migrate stateless staging microservices to Spot instances.

Identifying stateless candidates in 'staging'......

$12,000/mo
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Life-cycle Policy

Move S3 objects >90 days old to Glacier Deep Archive.

Scanning bucket 'app-logs-archive'......

$6,500/mo
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Nat Gateway

Consolidate NAT Gateways to reduce data processing fees.

Mapping VPC alignment......

$10,000/mo
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Aggressive Savings Path

$41,500 • Implementation: 1 Month+

Architecture

Migrate legacy EC2 monoliths to Lambda/Serverless.

Analyzing 'legacy-api' code dependencies......

$20,000/mo
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Dev Environments

Auto-shutdown all non-prod envs on nights/weekends.

Tagging dev/test resources for 'InstanceScheduler'......

$11,500/mo
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Database

Migrate Aurora to DynamoDB for specific high-throughput tables.

Analyzing 'session_store' table access patterns......

$10,000/mo
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