AWS FinOps

Welcome to Cloudshim’s AWS FinOps Guide, your technical playbook for understanding and optimizing costs across AWS services.

This guide is built for engineers, architects, and FinOps teams who want to reduce cloud waste, understand billing patterns, and apply cost-saving strategies using AWS-native tools.

🎯 What You'll Find

This documentation is organized by AWS resource type, making it easy to dive directly into:

  • 🔍 Understanding how each service generates cost

  • ⚙️ Learning optimization strategies tailored to that service

  • 📊 Viewing examples from real CUR data

  • 🛠️ Using scripts and tools to analyze and reduce spend

🚀 Who This Is For

Whether you're:

  • A DevOps engineer managing EC2 or Lambda

  • A FinOps analyst tracking spend across accounts

  • A cloud architect designing scalable + cost-effective infrastructure → this guide is for you.

📚 Example Topics

  • EC2 rightsizing with Compute Optimizer

  • S3 storage class transitions for savings

  • RDS vs Aurora pricing trade-offs

  • Analyzing Lambda invocations per ms

  • Breaking down VPC data transfer costs

🧭 Navigation

Use the sidebar to jump directly to any AWS resource, like EC2, S3, or RDS. Each page gives you:

  • Clear cost drivers

  • Common pitfalls

  • Optimization strategies

  • Sample CUR breakdowns

Cloud costs shouldn’t be a mystery. Let’s make AWS cost-efficient, together.

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