5 Cloud Cost Leaks (and How to Fix Them)

Cloud bills creep up silently. Here's what we find on almost every FinOps audit.

Oversized instances — Teams provision for peak load and never rightsize. Use autoscaling and review instance types quarterly.

Orphaned resources — Unattached EBS volumes, idle load balancers, and forgotten snapshots add up fast. Automate cleanup policies.

No reserved capacity strategy — For predictable workloads, reserved instances or savings plans can cut costs 30–50%.

Missing tagging — You can't optimize what you can't attribute. Enforce cost-center tags from day one.

Lift-and-shift without refactoring — Moving VMs to cloud without redesigning for cloud-native patterns leaves money on the table.

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