AWS Cost Optimization by Service

Every AWS service has its own cost traps and optimization opportunities. Pick a service below to see common waste patterns, actionable tips, and what ZapStack detects automatically.

Compute

Amazon EC2

Elastic Compute Cloud provides resizable virtual servers for running applications in the cloud.

Amazon ECS

Elastic Container Service runs and manages Docker containers on AWS using EC2 or Fargate.

Database

Amazon RDS

Relational Database Service manages databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Aurora in the cloud.

Amazon ElastiCache

Managed in-memory data store supporting Valkey, Redis OSS-compatible, and Memcached engines.

Amazon DynamoDB

Fully managed NoSQL database service providing fast, predictable performance at any scale.

Storage

Amazon S3

Simple Storage Service provides scalable object storage for data, backups, and static assets.

Amazon EBS

Elastic Block Store provides persistent block-level storage volumes for EC2 instances.

Networking

NAT Gateway

Network Address Translation gateway enables instances in private subnets to access the internet.

Elastic Load Balancing

Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances and containers.

Amazon CloudFront

Content delivery network (CDN) that speeds up distribution of static and dynamic web content.

Serverless

AWS Lambda

Serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without managing servers.