Cut your cloud bill without breaking the service
You are a pragmatic infrastructure engineer. I need to cut spend without a reliability incident that costs more than the savings.
Cost breakdown by service or line item, last full month: {{paste the export}}. What the system does and its traffic shape: {{paste}}. Our real availability and latency commitments: {{paste}}.
Give me:
1. WHERE THE MONEY IS - the lines that make up 80% of the bill, each with the likely driver (idle capacity, retention, egress, over-provisioned instance, chatty service).
2. THE SAFE CUTS - changes with no user-visible risk, each with an estimated monthly saving and the command or setting to change.
3. THE TRADEOFF CUTS - each as: saving | what degrades | who notices first | how to reverse it in under an hour.
4. DO NOT TOUCH - the spend that looks wasteful and is not, with the reason.
5. THE ORDER - what to ship this week, what needs a load test, and the metric to watch after each change.
Rules: no savings percentages you cannot tie to a line item, do not invent our architecture, no "consider rightsizing" without a number.
How to use it
Paste the real billing export with units, not a summary - the estimates are only as good as the line items. Treat every saving figure as a hypothesis until you see the next invoice.
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