AWS cost optimization tooling is reactive and lagging
5/10 MediumAWS cost management tools (Trusted Advisor, Cost Explorer) provide only historical analysis and recommendations, not proactive guidance. They lag real-time spending and cannot predict whether current costs will match forecasts, making it difficult to catch cost overruns early.
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The cost forecast for the service is not accurate. There is room for improvement. The over head charges sometimes feel beefed up... S3 is 'cheap' per GB, but it adds up. Especially if you're uploading logs, backups, videos, or user-generated content. Without lifecycle policies, your S3 bucket becomes a black hole of never-deleted data.
trusted advisor it gives you a few tips around how to optimize cost but that assumes your workload's already already live as does cost explorer which will use past information to um to determine a sort of a three-month forecast but again that's lagging lagging information