How to effectively audit and reduce AWS/

Our AWS bills are skyrocketing this year. Does anyone have a good framework or recommend a service to audit and optimize cloud infrastructure? We are a mid-sized team and need straightforward advice, not a $10k enterprise consultant. Any tips?

I feel your pain, man. We had a similar issue last quarter where our cloud costs almost doubled for no obvious reason. Before you hire an expensive external consultant, you should do a quick internal audit. I found some really practical breakdowns over at https://techflowzone.com/ that helped us identify redundant server resources and zombie instances. They review different IT services and optimization strategies that are actually geared towards lean teams. It helped us cut our monthly bill by about 30%.