Cloud Cost Optimization

Reducing Cloud Egress Costs by 60%: Real Tactics

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Egress is where cloud bills quietly explode.

  1. 01CloudFront in front of public S3 assets

    $0.085/GB → ~$0.04/GB at scale tiers.

  2. 02Cloudflare R2 or Backblaze for static asset offload

    Zero egress; pricing flips at modest scale.

  3. 03VPC endpoints to eliminate intra-AWS egress via NAT

    S3 GET via NAT $0.045/GB → $0.

  4. 04Compress at the edge

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5-Lever FinOps FrameworkFrom audit to optimization — week-by-week01RightsizingEC2 + RDSnWeek 1–202CommitmentsSavings PlansnWeek 303Idle AuditEBS, EIPs, NATnWeek 3–404Data TransferVPC EndpointsnWeek 5–705Cost AllocationPer-customernWeek 8–10Result: 38% cost reduction · $420K annualized savings · 99.97% uptimeReal engagement · B2B SaaS · 90 days
The 5-lever framework Ohveda used to cut a B2B SaaS client’s AWS bill by 38% in 90 days.

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