AWS cost optimisation in India

In this order: delete what nobody uses (unattached disks, old snapshots, idle load balancers, forgotten test servers); right-size servers that sit at low CPU; switch development servers off at night and at weekends; then cover the steady part of your usage with a Savings Plan. The first three need no commitment.

It depends on how much waste your account has, and nobody can tell you before seeing the bill. What AWS publishes: Savings Plans cut compute prices by up to 66–72% for a one- or three-year commitment, and Graviton servers list at 40–50% less than Intel ones in Mumbai. The audit tells you what applies to your account.

A line-by-line review of your AWS bill, done through read access you grant and can remove. You get a written report of every saving we find, what each is worth a month, and what it would take — with no commitment to act on it.

For servers, Savings Plans. A Compute Savings Plan covers EC2, Fargate and Lambda across instance families and regions, at up to 66% off; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan gives up to 72% within one instance family and region. For databases, AWS added Database Savings Plans in December 2025: one-year, up to 20% off provisioned instances such as RDS, and not combinable with Reserved Instances on the same database. Commit only to the usage you're sure of.

The FinOps Foundation calls it "an operational framework and cultural practice which maximizes the business value of technology". In practice: engineering, finance and management share responsibility for cloud spend, and decisions weigh cost alongside speed and reliability. For most Indian SMEs it starts with a monthly bill review and budget alerts, which is where we start too.

For the right work. Spot Instances cost up to 90% less than On-Demand, but AWS can take them back with a two-minute warning. They suit batch jobs, build servers and workers that can stop and restart — not your database or your only web server.

It shouldn't. We right-size from weeks of usage data, not a snapshot, change one thing at a time at quiet hours, and keep a way back for each change. If anything slows, we undo it.

Sometimes. A steady workload that runs all day at the same size can cost less on a managed dedicated server at a fixed monthly price. AWS earns its price when you use what it does well: scaling up and down, managed databases, many services. The audit says which case you're in.

Yes. The audit and the changes stand on their own; running the account day to day is a separate service, AWS managed services, if you want it.

Yes. If your account has an Indian address, your contract is with AWS India, which invoices in rupees at the exchange rate on the invoice date and adds 18% GST. Your AWS usage stays billed by AWS in rupees.