Idle AWS Resources: Find and Delete Them Safely
Find and clean up idle AWS resources: unattached EBS volumes, orphaned snapshots, idle Elastic IPs, unused load balancers and NAT gateways, with safe CLI.
Articles on EC2
Everything on the Kostrix blog tagged EC2, newest first.
EC2 Spot Instances Done Right, Without the Drama
Run EC2 Spot Instances safely: interruption notices, price-capacity-optimized, diversification, Karpenter, EMR and Batch, plus the workloads to avoid.
EC2 Rightsizing and Graviton: Two Levers That Stack
EC2 rightsizing with CloudWatch and Compute Optimizer, a Graviton migration checklist, us-east-1 prices, and why both come before Savings Plans.
Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans: How to Choose
Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans for EC2: discount ranges, flexibility, RI Marketplace resale, coverage vs utilization, and how to size a commitment.
How to Save Big on Your AWS Bill: Our Top 5 Tips
How to save on your AWS bill: delete idle resources, rightsize and move to Graviton, commit with Savings Plans, tier storage and cut NAT transfer costs.