Our EC2 or VM bill feels too high for what the servers actually do
In our experience, a lot of cloud instances run at low average CPU. Rightsizing often delivers meaningful savings without performance impact, an afternoon's work.
Try this first
- 1Open AWS Trusted Advisor (Business Support or higher), Azure Advisor, or GCP Recommender. They give concrete per-instance suggestions.
- 2Filter on instances with < 20 percent CPU over 14 days and < 50 percent memory. Those are candidates for one size smaller.
- 3Test the migration in staging first. Some workloads have occasional peak usage that disappears in an average.
- 4For compute that's truly idle outside office hours: schedule stop/start via Instance Scheduler or Azure Automation. Saves a large slice of the hourly cost.
- 5Plan rightsizing as quarterly work, not one-off. Workloads change, recommendations change with them.
When to bring us in
If you're talking hundreds of instances, a tool like Spot.io or CloudHealth pays off. Below 50 instances, manual with Advisor is enough.
See also
- Everyone logs in with the AWS root accountRoot is for emergencies and billing. Day-to-day work belongs in IAM users or SSO.
- Every developer has AdministratorAccessAdministratorAccess everywhere is convenient now, painful later. Start with role-based policies.
- Everyone has individual IAM users with their own passwordIdentity Center (formerly AWS SSO) links to your IdP and issues temporary credentials per session.
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