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The 4 Biggest Sources of Cloud Compute Waste
Our infrastructure audits consistently uncover the same culprits: over-provisioned idle instances, unattached EBS storage volumes, uncompressed cross-region data transfer fees, and forgotten staging clusters.
Immediate Cost-Reduction Tactics
- Automated Spot Instance Fleets: Leverage Spot instances with automated fallback handlers for stateless worker queues, reducing compute costs by up to 70%.
- ARM-Based Graviton / Ampere Migrations: Switching x86 workloads to ARM64 architecture yields an immediate 20% price-to-performance gain.
- Aggressive Lifecycle Storage Rules: Transitioning S3 buckets to Intelligent-Tiering and Glacier Instant Retrieval automatically after 30 days of inactivity.