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We cut a client's AWS bill by 41% without touching a single feature

Right-sizing, storage tiering and one very expensive NAT gateway.

BrandKul Cloud
19 May 2026
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We cut a client's AWS bill by 41% without touching a single feature — Cloud

Cloud waste is rarely dramatic. It is a hundred small defaults nobody revisited after launch day.

Compute right-sizing gave us the first 18%. Instances provisioned for a launch-day traffic spike had been running at 9% utilisation for fourteen months.

Storage tiering gave us another 11%. Logs and media older than ninety days moved to infrequent-access classes with no change to the application.

The last 12% was a single NAT gateway routing internal traffic that should never have left the VPC. One route table change, thousands of dollars a year.

Building something where this matters? We scope in writing before any code.

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