Are you using (paid) tools to reduce your AWS/ GCP/ Azure Bill?

Hi Indie-Hacker Community,

I've deployed a few web applications & services and always found it difficult to make sure I utilize my cloud resources in the most cost efficient way.

The built in tools provided by Amazon don't really help for small stacks/ don't provide the granularity of insights I need (which service is causing my DB query cost to skyrocket, etc.) and the commercial tools available are more catered towards large enterprises (and are also quite expensive).

I would like to build a solution that is mostly catered towards independent developers and small dev teams (2-3 members), that helps with the following:

• detect & automate cost optimization tasks such as right scaling instances, migration of services to lower cost regions, etc.
• schedule cloud availability times (I don't need my instances when I am sleeping)
• Understand how my services interact & cause costs (e.g. I found that one of my backend services was pinging my DB way too often - it took me forever to figure this out)
• Create more intelligent scaling rules for my elastic beanstalk cluster to better upscale/ downscale my instances.

I would love to hear from you how you are currently dealing with your cloud costs:

• Are you using any tools to optimize your cloud costs?
• Which strategies are you doing to use the cloud more efficiently?
• What have you tried to reduce your costs, but did not work?