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In-depth guides on AWS cost management, FinOps practices, rightsizing, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans. Our engineers share real billing teardowns, unit economics frameworks, and cost anomaly playbooks from production environments.
Checked 10 October 2026: managed Bedrock knowledge base storage is $5 per GB of raw data a month. One thousand GB is $5,000 before retrieval. An e-commerce workspace of terabytes of Drive files and millions of Gmail messages reached hundreds of dollars a day after ingestion started.
On Jul 21, 2026 AWS shipped SES Essentials, Pro ($105/region), and Enterprise ($500/region). At 2M emails/mo a Pro-like a-la-carte stack runs ~$1,793 vs Pro plan ~$553 — switch only when you need the bundled stack.
CloudZero, Vantage, Finout, nOps, ProsperOps, and Kubecost on AWS — platform selection guide plus who implements tagging, allocation, and architecture savings.
Production guide for Kubecost on AWS EKS — cost allocation setup plus architecture changes that reduce spend, not just attribute it.
Implement ProsperOps on AWS — Savings Plans automation works best after baseline modeling and architecture stability. Production checklist included.
EC2 On-Demand is a matrix of family, size, OS, tenancy, and region. In us-east-1 (June 2026) a m7g.large Linux runs $0.0816/hr vs a g5.xlarge GPU at $1.006/hr. Graviton5 M9g/C9g now GA for new fleets.
ElastiCache bills node-hours for Redis/Valkey clusters and ECPUs for Serverless. A cache.r7g.large with two replicas is 3× the primary node cost before data transfer. Serverless wins below ~$800/mo steady cache spend; provisioned nodes win above it.
Fargate bills per vCPU-second and GB-second, not per task hour. In us-east-1 a 0.25 vCPU / 0.5 GB task runs ~$9/mo; a 4 vCPU / 16 GB task ~$145/mo. Prefer arm64 + C9g/C8g when moving steady-state to ECS on EC2.