📰 Dev.to · Anushka B

Most cloud cost problems do not start with one bad resource. They start with a simple operating...

Every fintech founder in India asks me: "Do we need to move off AWS for RBI compliance?" Almost...

The most common FinOps mistake I see: over-engineered tagging strategy. A Series B SaaS team spent...

Your engineering team tracks DORA metrics. Your CFO doesn't know what they are. That's the gap...

The easiest AWS cost win nobody takes: migrate gp2 to gp3. Why nobody does: → "We'll plan it next...

A VP Engineering pushed back on me last month: "We have to go multi-region. Our enterprise clients...

Open your Grafana. Your Datadog. Your CloudWatch. Count the dashboards. Now count the ones anyone...

A compliance lead told me last week: "We're buying a ₹40L DPDPA compliance tool. We'll be ready by...

Every AWS audit, same line: "NAT Gateway — $450/month." Then I look at the VPC, and there are six...

A CTO asked me: "Should we move off Datadog? It's eating our runway." I said: "Before you migrate,...

The line item nobody budgets for: "Data Transfer — Inter-Region Out" Last audit: ₹4,20,000/month....

Every AWS audit I run, I find the same thing: 15-40% of EBS volumes orphaned. Detached. Running....

Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances for Indian startups in 2026: Mumbai region INR ROI math, RI coverage report playbook, break-even analysis. Free 24h audit.

Kubernetes cost audit for Series A-C Indian SaaS in 2026: EKS control plane, Karpenter, Spot, overprovisioning, bin-packing. Free 24h written PDF audit.

India founder's playbook to cut your SaaS startup AWS bill by 40% in 30 days (2026): Spot, Savings Plans, NAT, gp3, S3 lifecycle. Free 24h written audit.

AWS cost audit for Indian fintech startups in 2026: RBI data localisation, DPDP Act, FinOps checklist, Mumbai region INR math. Free 24h written PDF audit.

I run cost audits for Series A through C SaaS companies. Over the last four months I've worked...

I run cost audits for Indian and US-based SaaS companies at AICloudStrategist. In the last six months...

I run cloud cost audits for Indian SaaS founders. Over the last three months I've done 23 of them,...

I read cloud bills, architecture diagrams, and CloudWatch dashboards for a living. Across 23 Series...

Two line items. One billing export query. ₹14 lakh recovered per year. That is the short version of...

Every AWS account we audit has the same conversation. "What is our Reserved Instance...

Every engineering team I talk to has done a cloud cost review at some point. Reserved Instance...

Every Indian mid-market company with a monthly AWS bill above ₹5 lakh has the same conversation with...