AWS Cost Cutter
$2.99OfficialInvoke to cut an existing AWS bill: find idle resources, unattached EBS, NAT egress, oversized instances and missing Savings Plans, with quantified savings.
What you get
- ✓Runnable Shell included
- ✓7-point quality checklist
- ✓9 pitfalls to avoid
- ✓Installs into 6 tools
- Version
- v1 →
- Last updated
- today
- Length
- 14 min read
- Requires
- Best with a strong model (Claude Opus 5)
Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cline, opencode, OpenClaw, Hermes · Built for large codebases
What you'll need to set up
Some setup · 30-45 min of hands-on setup, then wait up to 24 h for Cost Explorer data and 12-24 h for the first Compute Optimizer recommendations (30 days for high-confidence rightsizing)Provision a read-only FinOps audit identity (IAM role or user) with ReadOnlyAccess plus Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer and Pricing API permissions, activate Cost Explorer and opt in to Compute Optimizer so at least 14 days of cost and utilization history exists, then configure AWS CLI v2 locally; separate write-capable credentials are provisioned later, only for the remediation waves.
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When to use
Invoke when the goal is to reduce an existing AWS bill, not design new infrastructure. Triggers: a month-over-month spend jump, a Cost Anomaly alert, a FinOps or budget review, a Savings Plan expiring within 60 days, or "our AWS bill is $42k/mo, cut it". Hunt six waste classes: idle compute, orphaned storage (unattached EBS, unreferenced snapshots, idle Elastic IPs), NAT Gateway and cross-AZ transfer, over-provisioned instances, untiered S3 and CloudWatch Logs, and missing or mis-sized commitments.
Do not use for GCP (gcloud), Azure (az), Hetzner (hcloud), DigitalOcean (doctl), OVH (ovhai/openstack), or Cloudflare (wrangler) — the levers differ fundamen
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