My AWS, Azure or GCP bill is suddenly running away
Cloud bills retroactively and exponentially. A forgotten ETL job or an open test environment can cost more in a week than an SMB server in a year.
Try this first
- 1Open Cost Explorer (AWS), Cost Management (Azure) or Billing Reports (GCP) immediately. Sort by service, then by resource. The top 3 almost always explains the problem.
- 2Common culprits: NAT Gateway running forever, an S3 bucket hit by a crawler per request, a test VM nobody shut down, or a SaaS with API tokens exploding.
- 3Set a budget alert on the account right now. An email when spend crosses X% of target is not a solution but prevents repeat.
- 4Schedule non-prod resources to power down outside office hours. A test VM that only runs daytime is immediately 60% cheaper.
- 5When in doubt ask vendor support for analysis help. On large spend spikes AWS, Azure and GCP sometimes return a (partial) credit on a one-off mistake, if reported quickly.
When to bring us in
For structural cost reduction (reserved instances, right-sizing, region choice, tag strategy) we help clients in a cloud cost review. /contact.
See also
- What does Managed IT actually cost for a 10-person SMBNo fixed number, but an honest breakdown. A full package for ten people is not 50 euros a month and not 5000 either.
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard versus Premium, what is extraThe price jump is real but Premium does not add Word features. It adds security and device management.
- Microsoft announces another price hike, what do I doSince NCE Microsoft adjusts pricing structurally. Without action you renew at the new price for a full year.
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