SMRTR ProgrammingAug 11, 2026Hacker Noon

I Cut a Startup's AWS Bill by 40%: Here's How

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A freelance cloud architect cut a Series A startup's AWS bill from $14,000 to $8,000/month in four weeks — saving $70,000/year and eliminating the need for a full-time DevOps hire. The fixes: deleting 4TB of orphaned EBS volumes, replacing oversized EKS nodes with Karpenter and Spot instances, and adding VPC Endpoints to bypass costly NAT Gateway traffic.

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