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Example cost optimization analysis

Cost Analysis

Last scan about 2 hours ago
Region: us-east-1
Monthly potential

$936

Annual projection

$11,227

Total opportunities

13 optimizations

Largest Single Opportunity

$350

Biggest cost reduction available

High-Value Items

31%

4 items worth $100+/month

Top Waste Category

RDS

$350/month waste

Business Risk Level

High

Cost bleed from unoptimized resources

Service Breakdown

Breakdown of savings and issues by service

Potential Savings by Service
Total potential savings: $936
Number of Issues (Top 6)
Analyzed 8 services with 13 total issues

Strategic Investment Analysis

Optimization value grouped by business impact and implementation priority

Critical Impact

$350

1 items • immediate ROI

High Value

$350

3 items • strong business case

Strategic Gains

$123

2 items • planned optimization

Incremental Wins

$113

7 items • ongoing efficiency

Optimization Opportunities
$936 potential savings
Showing 13 of 13 optimization opportunities

staging-database

RDS
critical
$350
per month

Stop idle RDS instance (0% connections) - db.r5.xlarge staging database with no activity for 30+ days

api-server-prod

EC2
high
$120
per month

Downsize overprovisioned instance (12% CPU) - reduce from m5.xlarge to m5.large

data-backup-vol

EBS
high
$120
per month

Delete unattached EBS volume (1500GB gp3) - detached 30+ days ago from terminated instance

Size: 1500GB

image-processor

Lambda
high
$110
per month

Lambda over-provisioned (15% timeout usage) - reduce memory from 3008MB to 1024MB

Memory: 3008MBTimeout usage: 15%Avg duration: 4.5sMonthly invocations: 100,000

weekly-backup-2023

EBS
medium
$63
per month

Delete old snapshots (6+ months old) - 25 snapshots totaling 1250GB from previous backup strategy

Size: 1250GB

worker-server

EC2
medium
$60
per month

Downsize overprovisioned instance (8% CPU) - reduce from m5.large to t3.large

vpc-nat-legacy

NATGateway
low
$34
per month

Delete unused NAT Gateway - minimal data transfer (<0.5GB/day) for unused VPC

app-assets

S3
low
$25
per month

Clean up 10 incomplete multipart uploads - failed uploads consuming ~1TB storage unnecessarily

user-uploads

S3
low
$18
per month

Implement S3 lifecycle policy - 1000GB of objects >90 days old can move to Infrequent Access

legacy-app-lb

LoadBalancer
low
$17
per month

Delete unused Application Load Balancer (0 healthy targets) - no traffic for 14+ days

test-server-old

EC2
low
$15
per month

Stop idle EC2 instance (2% CPU) - t3.small instance with minimal activity

elastic-ip-1

EIP
low
$4
per month

Release unattached Elastic IP - not associated with any instance for 45+ days

temp-processing

S3
low
$1
per month

Delete empty S3 bucket - no objects stored but incurring management costs

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