Alexander

Building a tool that explains AWS bills in plain English. Seeing the same cost spikes confuse founders over and over. #indiehackers

@harshalstwt Exactly — it’s rarely one big mistake. Usually data transfer, background jobs, or RDS/storage changes quietly creeping up over time. How do you usually spot them?

@Alexand65601285 Same here. Most of the time it’s not one big mistake, but a few small changes that quietly add up. Finding the spike is easy, understanding why it happened takes the real effort.

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@harshalstwt Exactly and the frustrating part is that AWS doesn’t really answer the “why” without a lot of digging. Out of curiosity, what usually ends up causing the spikes when you look into them?

@Alexand65601285 yeah, got it

@sagarmenon98 Probably fewer than people think — but a lot were quietly slowed or forced to make bad tradeoffs because they didn’t understand where costs were coming from.

do we have numbers on how many startups were killed by their aws bills

@harshalstwt Most teams I see only look when something spikes — the hard part is understanding why it changed, not spotting that it did.

Curious how others here handle AWS cost visibility. Do you review bills regularly or only when something looks off?

@CloudOpsStudio Orphaned snapshots show up a lot. What surprises most people is how small things like this add up month over month without being obvious.

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@tpschmidt_ This matches what I keep seeing — most “surprises” come from a small handful of services, not overall usage. NAT Gateway and forgotten EBS volumes show up constantly.

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