AWS Cost Optimization Report

Generated: Wed Mar 12 14:30:15 AEDT 2026

Region: ap-southeast-2

Accounts Scanned: 3 (Production, Staging, Development)

🎯 Quick Wins - Immediate Actions

Oldest Resource: Instance stopped for 1,247 days (3.4 years!)

Biggest Single Cost: RDS instance costing $900/month with zero connections for 90+ days

Easiest Deletion: 4 unassociated Elastic IPs - delete in 30 seconds, save $173/year

Summary

Stopped Instances (30+ days): 13

Unattached Volumes: 4

Unassociated Elastic IPs (90+ days old): 4

Unused Load Balancers (90+ days old, no traffic): 11

Unused RDS Instances (90+ days old, no connections): 13

Unused DynamoDB Tables (90+ days old, no activity): 7

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Cost Savings Analysis

Resource Type	Count	Monthly Cost	Annual Cost
Unassociated Elastic IPs	4	$14.40	$172.80
Unused Load Balancers	11	$156.60	$1,879.20
Unused RDS Instances	13	$3,243.00	$38,916.00
Unused DynamoDB Tables	7	$12.22	$146.64
Stopped Instances EBS Storage (7200GB)	13	$691.20	$8,294.40
Unattached EBS Volumes (580GB)	4	$103.68	$1,244.16
TOTAL POTENTIAL SAVINGS		$4,221.10	$50,653.20

Top 10 Costly Resources

Resource	Type	Age/Status	Monthly Cost
legacy-oracle-db (db.r6i.2xlarge)	RDS	2,156 days old, 0 connections for 90+ days	$900.00
prod-mysql-legacy-01 (db.r6i.xlarge)	RDS	1,634 days old, 0 connections for 90+ days	$450.00
backup-postgres-db (db.r6g.xlarge)	RDS	1,567 days old, 0 connections for 90+ days	$360.00
old-reporting-db (db.m6i.xlarge)	RDS	1,934 days old, 0 connections for 90+ days	$350.00
analytics-db-old (db.r6i.large)	RDS	1,823 days old, 0 connections for 90+ days	$225.00
test-oracle-instance (db.r6i.large)	RDS	1,123 days old, 0 connections for 90+ days	$225.00
app-postgres-old (db.r6g.large)	RDS	1,289 days old, 0 connections for 90+ days	$180.00
staging-mysql-db (db.m6i.large)	RDS	956 days old, 0 connections for 90+ days	$175.00
batch-processor-03 (i-0c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0)	EC2 Stopped	Stopped 891 days, 1200GB EBS storage	$115.20
test-environment-alb	Load Balancer	945 days old, 0 traffic for 90+ days	$16.20

Methodology

This report uses forensic CloudWatch analysis to provide proof of costs, not just recommendations:

RDS Instances: 90+ days of DatabaseConnections metrics analyzed (91 datapoints checked)
Load Balancers: 90+ days of RequestCount and ActiveConnectionCount metrics
DynamoDB Tables: 90+ days of ConsumedReadCapacityUnits and ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits
EC2 Instances: Stopped for 30+ days with actual EBS storage costs calculated
Elastic IPs: Unassociated for 90+ days

Note: All costs shown are actual current costs being spent. RDS costs are compute-only estimates; actual costs include storage, Multi-AZ, backups, and IOPS.

Next Steps

Quick Wins (Week 1): Delete 4 Elastic IPs ($173/year), remove 11 unused load balancers ($1,879/year)
High Impact (Week 2-3): Snapshot and delete 13 unused RDS instances ($38,916/year)
Cleanup (Week 4): Terminate stopped instances, delete unattached volumes ($9,539/year)
Total Savings: $50,653/year in proven costs eliminated