AWS spend had grown 5x in two years on flat traffic. Finance was asking questions engineering couldn't answer. No one had a single pane of glass on where the money was going.
We instrumented Kubecost across clusters, wired Athena reports for unaccounted spend, right-sized the worst offenders, and put autoscaling guardrails behind Terraform — so cost discipline survives the next on-call rotation.
41% off the quarterly bill, with the savings durable across the next two quarters. Finance now has a dashboard they trust and engineering owns its line item.
−41%
Quarterly AWS spend
3mo
Time to results
2
Engineers on it