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Cloud Cost Optimization — The Practical Guide for AWS, Azure, and GCP

Cloud bills grow quietly until someone asks why. This is the map for cutting spend without cutting reliability: where the money actually goes, the levers that work, and the tools worth paying for.

Kiril Urbonas·6

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Kubernetes Cost Tools — Kubecost vs OpenCost vs Cast AI

Your cloud bill says $80k. Your cluster says nothing about which team burned it. Here's how OpenCost, Kubecost, and Cast AI actually split that number.

Kiril Urbonas·8

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Catching AWS Cost Spikes Before the Invoice

The bill arrives three weeks late. By then the runaway logging pipeline has already burned $9,000. Here is how we catch spikes in hours, not weeks.

Kiril Urbonas·3

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GCP Committed Use vs Sustained Use Discounts

GCP hands you one discount for free and sells you a deeper one. Here's how sustained and committed use actually stack, and how we size the commitment.

Kiril Urbonas·7

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How to Cut Your AWS Bill by 40% — A Practical Checklist

A field-tested checklist for cutting an AWS bill, ordered by return on effort. Start with the free wins, end with the ones that need a meeting.

Kiril Urbonas·2

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Cloud Egress Costs Explained (and How to Avoid Them)

Egress is the line item nobody sizes upfront and everyone regrets at month-end. Here's the taxonomy, the surprise bills, and what actually cuts it.

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Best FinOps and Cloud Cost Tools in 2026

A field guide to the FinOps tooling that actually earns its keep in 2026, from native dashboards to CloudZero and Cast AI, sorted by what you spend.

Kiril Urbonas·20

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Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans vs Spot — Which and When

AWS gives you four ways to pay for compute and three of them cut the bill. Here is how to pick, and how to stack them without painting yourself into a corner.

Kiril Urbonas·5

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S3 vs Azure Blob vs GCS — Object Storage Cost Comparison

Three object stores, similar sticker prices, wildly different bills once retrieval and egress hit. Here is where the money actually goes.

Kiril Urbonas·2

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AWS vs Azure vs GCP Pricing in 2026 — Real Cost Comparison

The three big clouds are closer on list price than the sales decks suggest. Where they actually diverge is discounts, egress, and Windows licensing.

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NAT Gateway Costs: The Silent Line Item and How to Cut It

A single NAT Gateway quietly billed us $2,900 in one month, mostly for data processing on traffic that never needed to leave the VPC. Here's how we found it and cut it.

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S3 Cost Traps: Storage Classes, Requests, and the Surprise Bill

Our S3 bill tripled in a month with no growth in stored data. The storage line was flat. The cost was in requests and a misconfigured lifecycle rule quietly shredding money.