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CloudWatch Logs Insights bills $0.005 per GB scanned and high-cardinality custom metrics multiply costs. Cardinality budgets, sampling rules, and FinOps fixes.

July 2026: nine migration mistakes that still show up after Migration Hub closed to new customers on November 7, 2025 — Application Migration Service (MGN), DMS, AWS Transform, Org/SCPs, FinOps dual-run costs, and Migration Lens.

Most teams buy Bedrock Provisioned Throughput too early or too late. This is the break-even math — by token volume, by model family, and by traffic shape — that we use in real FinOps engagements to decide which Bedrock pricing mode wins.

NAT Gateways are one of the most silent budget killers on AWS. AWS finally added Compute Optimizer support to find idle ones — but the real fix is knowing when not to use them at all.

Cheapest Spot pool is often the unstable one. July 2026: price-capacity-optimized + attribute-based selection, stability scoring, interruption hygiene — before you chase $/hr.

The standard cost optimization checklist no longer cuts it. These 8 modern strategies — from unit economics to automated Savings Plans and cost observability — reflect how engineering teams are actually managing cloud spend in 2026.

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to flag unusual spending patterns — runaway EC2 instances, unexpected Lambda spikes, or compromised credentials. This guide covers setup, alerting, and automation to prevent bill shock.

Bedrock billing is not a single line item — it is a composition of model invocation costs, Knowledge Base retrieval, Agent orchestration, Guardrails evaluation, and cross-region inference profile routing. Each component has its own pricing model and its own set of cost traps.

AWS Cost Optimization Hub consolidates recommendations from Compute Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, and Cost Explorer into a single prioritized list with estimated annual savings. If you are running three separate cost review processes, this dashboard replaces all of them.

Karpenter vs Cluster Autoscaler on EKS: consolidation + flexible NodePools beat half-empty ASG nodes. July 2026: karpenter.sh/v1, WhenEmptyOrUnderutilized, Spot mix checklist.

Anonymized Series A SaaS bill: ~$40k/month for ~$8–9k of real work. July 2026 refresh — free S3/DynamoDB gateway endpoints, EBS zombies, RDS rightsizing, Trusted Advisor on Business Support+.

A healthcare estate was burning ~$200k/year on NAT. July 2026 refresh — NAT still ~$0.045/GB, free S3 gateway endpoints, Secrets Manager interface endpoints, and a VPC fix pattern that cut ~78%.