Cloud bills often grow faster than expected. These ten measures typically reduce costs significantly without hurting performance.
1. Right-size resources
Many servers are larger than needed. Check actual CPU and memory usage and choose smaller instance types.
2. Turn off what you don't use
Development and test environments rarely need to run at night or on weekends. Schedule automatic shutdowns.
3. Use auto-scaling
Scale out during peaks and in when traffic drops, instead of paying for peak capacity all the time.
4. Commit for discounts
Reserved instances or savings plans give large discounts for predictable, long-running workloads.
5. Choose the right storage class
Move rarely accessed data to cheaper storage tiers and delete what is no longer needed.
6. Clean up leftovers
Unattached disks, old snapshots, unused IP addresses and forgotten load balancers cost money every month.
7. Use managed and serverless services wisely
Managed databases and serverless functions can be cheaper than self-managed servers – especially for variable workloads.
8. Watch data transfer
Outbound traffic and cross-region transfers add up. Use caching and CDNs.
9. Tag and allocate costs
Tag resources by project, team and environment so you know who spends what.
10. Monitor and review monthly
Budgets, alerts and a monthly cost review make spending visible. This practice is called FinOps.
Don't forget the alternatives
For stable, predictable workloads, European providers or managed hosting can be considerably cheaper than hyperscalers.
We review cloud environments and implement savings while keeping reliability and security intact.