Cloud Cost Optimization: Recovering the 20–35% You're Overspending | Clickmasters

Right-size compute against actual utilization; kill zombie resources (unattached volumes, forgotten environments); commit (savings plans/reserved) on proven steady load; and audit data-transfer paths, the silent budget eater.

Monthly cost review with owners named, budgets alerting at forecast not just actual, and cost as a design-review criterion — FinOps is a habit, not a project.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.