The 5 AWS services that secretly drained 30% of my startup’s budget

While building CloudWise (an AI Copilot for AWS cost optimization), I audited $2M+ of AWS spending across several startups.

What shocked me: five services kept draining budgets quietly — even for experienced teams.

• NAT Gateways
• Idle Load Balancers
• Unattached EBS Volumes
• CloudWatch Logs
• Data Transfer

I broke down what each one costs, how to find them, and quick fixes.

Here’s the full write-up → https://dev.to/cloudwiseteam/the-5-aws-services-that-secretly-drain-your-budget-and-how-to-stop-them-39nn

And if you want to detect these automatically, I built CloudWise to help founders spot them before AWS bills explode.

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