CloudPouch ships 18 built-in Cost Insights covering the AWS services where wasted spend most often hides: compute, block and object storage, databases, networking, containers, and monitoring. Each insight is a focused check with its own page describing what it looks for, why the finding costs money, and which AWS permissions it needs.
New insights ship regularly — DynamoDB arrived in v1.5.0, Bedrock cost attribution in v1.46.0. See the release history for the full timeline.
| Cost Insight | What it finds |
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| EC2 Cost Insights | Unused and underutilized instances, plus rightsizing candidates where a smaller instance type would do the same work. |
| EC2 Auto Scaling Group Cost Recommendations | Cost recommendations at the Auto Scaling Group level, where a single instance-type change multiplies across every instance in the group. |
| Lambda Cost Insights | Per-function cost and configuration recommendations. |
| Cost Insight | What it finds |
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| EBS Cost Insights | Unattached volumes, volumes attached to stopped instances, and the Volume Type Advisor: the cheapest feasible type and provisioning per volume — across gp2, gp3, io1, io2, st1, sc1, and Magnetic — from 14 days of CloudWatch usage. In one 2021/2022 engagement the GP2-to-GP3 analysis found $18,890/month of savings across ~17,000 volumes. |
| EBS Snapshot Cost Insights | Snapshot cleanup and archive candidates. Snapshot-based cleanup of stopped-instance volumes drove $1.32M/year of savings in one large account. |
| S3 Cost Insights | Bucket storage cost, missing lifecycle rules, Intelligent-Tiering usage, and average cost per GB per bucket. |
| EFS Cost Insights | File system storage class mix, lifecycle policy state, and throughput mode cost context. |
| Cost Insight | What it finds |
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| RDS Cost Insights | Idle databases, over-provisioned instances, storage issues, and Extended Support surcharges on outdated engine versions. |
| DynamoDB Cost Insights | Provisioned capacity billed far above what the table consumes, missing autoscaling, and burst capacity risk. |
| DocumentDB Cost Insights | Idle clusters, rightsizing candidates, and Graviton migration recommendations. |
| Cost Insight | What it finds |
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| VPC Cost Insights | NAT Gateways and VPC endpoints whose hourly-plus-per-GB pricing is out of proportion to the traffic they carry. |
| ELB Cost Insights | Load balancers with no healthy targets that still bill every hour, and target group issues. |
| Elastic IP Cost Insights | Elastic IP addresses that sit idle but keep billing hourly. |
| Cost Insight | What it finds |
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| EKS Extended Support Detection | Clusters on Kubernetes versions in or approaching Extended Support, which adds a per-cluster hourly surcharge. |
| ECR Cost Insights | Outdated and unused container images accumulating storage charges in registries. |
| Cost Insight | What it finds |
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| Bedrock cost breakdown by IAM tag | Amazon Bedrock spend attributed to teams and projects via IAM principal tags. |
| Glue Cost Insights | Crawlers running on aggressive schedules and job configurations that burn more DPUs than the workload needs. |
| Cost Insight | What it finds |
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| CloudWatch Cost Insights | Log groups where ingestion and retention costs grow unchecked — CloudWatch Logs bills for ingestion and storage separately. |