Guides

Each guide starts from a real question — “why did my EKS bill jump?”, “who is spending on Bedrock?”, “are my GP2 volumes overpriced?” — and walks through answering it with CloudPouch on your desktop.

Setup

• Create a CloudPouch IAM policy — give CloudPouch the read-only AWS permissions it needs, manually or with the CloudFormation helper.

Hidden AWS surcharges

• How to find Amazon EKS Extended Support costs — spot clusters on old Kubernetes versions that pay a higher per-cluster-hour rate.
• How to find Amazon RDS Extended Support costs — find databases already enrolled in Extended Support and those that will enroll within 12 months.

Multi-account work

• How to review costs across many AWS accounts — the account-after-account review loop: switch profiles with Cmd/Ctrl + K, run a full waste scan per account, nothing to install in any of them.
• How to switch between AWS accounts without logging in and out — replace the sign-out/sign-in/rebuild-Cost-Explorer routine with a local profile switch.

AI spend attribution

• How to attribute Amazon Bedrock spend by application or team — split Bedrock costs by IAM principal tags and expose untagged usage.

EBS storage savings

• How to right-size EBS volume types and provisioning — let the Volume Type Advisor match each volume’s type and provisioning to 14 days of real CloudWatch usage.
• How to evaluate GP2 to GP3 migration savings — the workflow behind a real $18,890/month saving in a 2021/2022 engagement.
• When to replace stopped-instance EBS volumes with snapshots — the snapshot-parking pattern that saved one account $1.3M/year in a 2023 engagement.
• How to measure AWS cost optimization results with a KPI — prove your savings even when the account keeps growing around you.

Related pages

• Cost Insights — what CloudPouch checks for each AWS service.
• Case study: EBS GP2 to GP3 savings
• Case study: the million-dollar EBS snapshot optimization
• Troubleshooting