Unattached EIPs cost $0.005 an hour. Over time this can compound into a waste of money. Using Cost explorer, we could see the rising cost of elastic IPs month over month. It grew to $300 a month and over time the waste cost about $1000. Once seeing this the customer could go in and remove the EIPs and identify the source of the where they were being unattached to stop this happening in the future.
One of the biggest challenges in starting a FinOps practice is getting broad executive support and buy-in to dedicate the time and resources needed for the cultural change.
Read moreUpon reviewing the amount of snapshots a customer had we found a large proportion of them were created from AMIs. This was found by listing all available amis in and connecting them back to the snapshot using the description. However, many of the AMIs that created them had been released....
Read moreA list of best practices for cloud architects to design systems to optimize FinOps.
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