AWS Hidden Features + 10 Quick Wins: Save $1000s Monthly (12 Minutes)

09/08/2025 10 min Episodio 6

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🔥 IMMEDIATE COST SAVINGS ALERT 🔥Most cloud practitioners are missing brand NEW AWS Cost Management features that could save thousands monthly. Plus: Google Cloud's hidden 40% storage cost cuts, Azure billing workarounds, and Microsoft's surprise price hikes hitting budgets NOW.What You'll Learn in 12 Minutes:✅ AWS's secret billing view budgets & Q Developer AI recommendations (20% instant savings)✅ Google Cloud shadow API discovery (one chef found $800/month in forgotten endpoints)✅ 10 proven optimization recipes: 5-minute fixes to 1-hour projects✅ Instance rightsizing automation (30-45% compute cost reduction)✅ Emergency "hot potato audit" for cost spike crises✅ Daily habits that create ongoing savings cultureQuick Wins You Can Implement Today:Idle resource cleanup (10-25% average savings)Storage tiering strategy (up to 54% reduction)Auto-scaling optimization (40% savings during low-load)Spot instance planning (25-70% vs on-demand pricing)Fresh Community Intel:Microsoft's 15-20% price increases hitting enterprise budgets + community-discovered Azure CSP billing workarounds that eliminate 15% administrative overhead.Perfect for: Cloud engineers, DevOps teams, FinOps practitioners, CTOs managing cloud spend🎯 Every tip is immediately actionable - start saving before this episode ends!Visit cloudcostchefs.com for implementation guides, templates, and community support.#CloudCosts #AWS #DevOps #FinOps #CostOptimization #CloudSavings

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