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In AWS, finding idle resources involves monitoring and analyzing resource usage to identify underutilized resources. This helps optimize resource allocation, cut costs, and improve system efficiency. AWS provides native tools like CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor, and Cost Explorer for idle resource detection. Alternatively, Lightlytics offers a more user-friendly and scalable solution with advanced search capabilities and architectural standards.

Nobody likes surprise increases in their AWS bill. To help you avoid surprise bills, we just released our AWS cost anomaly detection capability. This capability is designed to help you stay on top of your evolving AWS costs, and alert you when there are anomalies compared to previous spend.With AWS cost anomaly detection, you can always remain in control of your cloud spending and can take action to optimize your resources whenever necessary.

Lightlytics can help you optimize your cross-communications network traffic, allowing you to achieve a high-performing, scalable, and cost-effective AWS architecture that meets the needs of your business.

Amazon MSK provides a fully managed service for Apache Kafka. Here are 9 practices to reduce MSK costs on AWS including using auto-scaling, choosing the right AWS instance type, using provisioned storage, enabling compression and 5 more.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a core component of AWS that allows you to run virtual servers in the cloud. While EC2 provides flexibility and scalability, managing costs effectively is crucial to make the most of the service. This article outlines some best practices for optimizing Amazon EC2 costs without compromising performance or reliability.

RDS (Relational Database Service) is a cloud-based database service that's fully managed service, easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Like all consumable services, you can implement best practices to reduce your AWS RDS costs. Here are 10 way to reduce this cost, including using RIs, Spot instances, autoscaling and 7 more.

EC2s are at the core of AWS deployments and can typically account for up to 45% of your AWS bill. Implementing cost best practices for EC2s pays dividends!We cover the 10 best practices to reduce AWS EC2 costs including choosing the right instance type, making use of ARM and AMD CPU types, choosing the correct volume types, saving plans.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a comprehensive set of best practices and guidelines for designing and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is organized into five pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization. In this article, we will focus on the Cost Optimization pillar and discuss how to implement its principles to manage AWS costs effectively.

One of the biggest challenges of cloud computing is managing costs. Democratizing cloud cost troubleshooting helps share responsibility and foster ownership of costs among the teams that use cloud services. Our customers report up to 25% reduction in their AWS bills after using our cost troubleshooting capabilities.

Spacelift is a Continuous Infrastructure Delivery (CID) platform that simplifies the process of deploying and managing IaC. It offers a way to automate your infrastructure provisioning while integrating seamlessly with your CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline. Spacelift supports various IaC tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and AWS CloudFormation.