Cloud Cost Optimization
The library of service-by-service cost plays
Each guide is a concrete playbook: the waste signals to look for, the optimization levers that move the bill, realistic savings ranges, and how TurboFinOps closes the loop with approval-gated remediation and verified savings receipts.
AWS
7 guidesAWS EC2 cost optimization
AWS EC2 is usually the largest line item on the AWS bill. Most teams pay 25-40% more than necessary because instance families, sizes and on/…
Read playbookAWS EBS cost optimization
EBS volumes and snapshots silently grow into a large fraction of the AWS bill. TurboFinOps catalogs every volume, attachment state, IOPS cla…
Read playbookAWS RDS cost optimization
RDS is one of the highest-margin services AWS sells. Most production fleets carry 30-50% headroom that never gets used. TurboFinOps quantifi…
Read playbookAWS S3 cost optimization
S3 cost grows quietly because most teams set a bucket policy at launch and never revisit. TurboFinOps inventories buckets, lifecycle, storag…
Read playbookAWS Lambda cost optimization
Lambda billing tracks memory × duration. Most teams overallocate memory by 2-3× because the default is 128MB and tuning is rarely revisited.…
Read playbookAWS EKS cost optimization
EKS underutilization is the most common cluster-cost mistake. Pod requests are over-set, nodes are oversized, and Spot is rarely used. Turbo…
Read playbookAWS NAT Gateway cost optimization
NAT Gateways charge per-hour and per-GB processed. Many architectures keep one per AZ even when traffic is negligible, and route AWS-service…
Read playbookAzure
5 guidesAzure Virtual Machines cost optimization
Azure VMs follow the same cost-leak pattern as EC2: oversized SKUs, no schedules, no reservations. TurboFinOps surfaces every VM with concre…
Read playbookAzure Managed Disks cost optimization
Unattached managed disks survive long after the VMs that owned them. TurboFinOps inventories disk attachment state and right-tier recommenda…
Read playbookAzure AKS cost optimization
AKS clusters typically run 30-50% below capacity. TurboFinOps surfaces node-pool right-size, Spot eligibility and pod-request adjustments.…
Read playbookAzure SQL Database cost optimization
Azure SQL costs scale with provisioned compute. Many databases are stuck on a DTU tier that no longer matches their pattern. TurboFinOps sur…
Read playbookAzure Storage Accounts cost optimization
Azure Storage Accounts grow quietly. TurboFinOps inventories containers, redundancy classes and lifecycle state and surfaces the largest tie…
Read playbookGCP
9 guidesGCP Compute Engine cost optimization
GCP Compute Engine is uniquely flexible (custom machine types) and uniquely under-optimized. TurboFinOps recommends concrete custom-shape ta…
Read playbookGCP GKE cost optimization
GKE has Autopilot (pay-per-pod) and Standard (pay-per-node) modes. TurboFinOps flags Standard clusters that would be cheaper as Autopilot an…
Read playbookGCP Cloud SQL cost optimization
Cloud SQL bills for vCPU, memory and storage. Many production fleets carry 40%+ headroom. TurboFinOps quantifies headroom and recommends con…
Read playbookGCP Cloud Storage cost optimization
GCP Cloud Storage cost grows quietly. Autoclass automates tiering; not all buckets have it enabled. TurboFinOps surfaces the largest opportu…
Read playbookGCP Cloud Run cost optimization
Cloud Run bills for CPU and memory during request handling. Default concurrency of 80 is rarely revisited. TurboFinOps surfaces per-service …
Read playbookGCP Persistent Disk cost optimization
Persistent Disks persist after VM deletion. TurboFinOps inventories disk attachment state and right-tier recommendations.…
Read playbookGCP External IPs cost optimization
Static external IPs charge while reserved if unattached. TurboFinOps inventories every reserved IP, attachment state and last-attached times…
Read playbookGCP Load Balancing cost optimization
GCP Load Balancing charges per forwarding rule plus per-GB data. Many architectures keep idle LBs alive long after the backend was deprecate…
Read playbookGCP BigQuery cost optimization
BigQuery cost has two axes: storage and compute. TurboFinOps surfaces both — partition design, slot vs on-demand and long-term storage tieri…
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