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AWS Cost Optimization Checklist:
High-Impact Actions for IT Ops Managers

Unlock significant savings on your AWS bill with these powerful optimizations:

Eliminate Idle Resources

  • Target: EBS volumes, AMIs, Elastic IPs, ELBs
  • Impact: Instantly cut costs from forgotten assets

Right-Size EC2 Instances

  • Actions:
    • Leverage Compute Optimizer
    • Resize instances
    • Migrate to Graviton
  • Benefit: Optimize compute spend without performance loss

Implement Intelligent Storage Tiering

  • Scope: S3 buckets, EBS snapshots
  • Outcome: Automatic cost reduction as data access patterns change

Schedule Non-Production Environments

  • Focus: Dev, test, and staging instances
  • Savings: Cut costs by up to 65% on non-critical workloads

Optimize Database Costs

  • Strategies:
    • DynamoDB infrequent access
    • RDS Single-AZ for non-critical DBs
  • Result: Lower costs for less-accessed data

Clean Up ML Resources

  • Target: Idle SageMaker endpoints, models, notebooks
  • Impact: Eliminate sneaky charges from forgotten ML projects

Leverage Reserved Instances & Savings Plans

  • Applicable: RDS, EC2, EMR for steady workloads
  • Potential: Huge savings over on-demand pricing

Fine-Tune Compute Efficiency

  • Actions:
    • Optimize Lambda memory
    • Right-size EC2 GPU usage
  • Benefit: Maximize performance-to-cost ratio

Optimize Data Transfer

  • Method: Implement S3 and DynamoDB gateway endpoints
  • Impact: Reduce data transfer fees and enhance security

Deploy CloudFix for Automated Cost Optimization

  • Benefit: Effortless implementation of all above strategies
  • Action: CloudFix continuously scans your AWS environment
  • Result: Automatic cost savings without manual intervention

Impact: Significant reduction in AWS spend with minimal effort

Real results you can bank on

15-60%

savings per AWS service

10-25%

efficiency gains with automation

100%

compliance with AWS best practices

AWS cost optimization you can trust

CloudFix makes it easy and affordable to go all-in on AWS. By optimizing costs and keeping up with best practices, your business can get more from existing AWS services and increase bandwidth to adopt new ones.

Jeremy Anderson, Cloud Architect
CloudFix saves us a tremendous amount of money with very little effort. Most of the other AWS cost savings tools we tried promised this, but CloudFix actually delivered.Jeremy Anderson, Cloud ArchitectConn’s HomePlus
Shawn Grant, President
It was fast and safe to connect our AWS account and let CloudFix run; it takes all the hard work out of finding and fixing the optimizations that AWS recommends that would just be too time consuming to perform manually.Shawn Grant, PresidentTokara Solutions

Save nonstop on AWS, easily and automatically.

See how much you can save

15-60%

Savings per AWS service