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About Cloud Cost Clinic

Cloud Cost Clinic is a pseudonymous educational project about practical AWS cost optimization for small cloud teams.

What this site is for

The goal is to help small teams understand their AWS bill, find likely waste, and make cleanup decisions carefully. The guidance here treats cost signals as review candidates, not automatic delete instructions.

A useful cost review starts with the bill, then narrows into service-level questions: which services changed, which usage types grew, which resources have owners, and which items need a safer review before anyone deletes or resizes them. Cloud Cost Clinic turns those questions into plain guides, checklists, and lightweight tools for teams that do not have a dedicated FinOps function.

How the guides are written

Articles use public AWS documentation, original explanations, and demo-safe examples. Cleanup advice should include verification steps, owner checks, dependency checks, backups, and rollback or change-window thinking before changing production resources.

The site avoids real account data and private examples. When an article discusses common cost areas such as NAT Gateway, CloudWatch Logs, EBS snapshots, RDS, S3, or data transfer, it frames findings as possible waste until ownership, usage, retention, backups, and dependencies have been checked.

Where to start

If you are planning a new workload, start with Cloud Cost Clinic Preflight to create starter budget guardrails before the first bill arrives. If you already have AWS usage, use the AWS Cost Review Checklist and then read the guides for service-specific review steps.

Boundaries

Cloud Cost Clinic is not affiliated with AWS, any employer, client, or vendor. The site does not use private billing exports, employer data, client screenshots, real account IDs, or identifiable cloud metadata.

Contact

You can reach Cloud Cost Clinic at hello@cloudcostclinic.com.