💰 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐒3 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐛𝐲 $6,975 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫

We recently worked with a customer who was developing a chat application where users could share files stored in Amazon S3.

During a cost review, we noticed that most files were rarely accessed after 30 days, but everything was still stored in S3 Standard, which costs $0.023 per GB.

After discussing the usage patterns with the team, we implemented a lifecycle policy to automatically move files older than 30 days to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, priced at $0.004 per GB.

📉 Results:

 ✅ Monthly cost reduction of $600

 ✅ Annual savings of $7,200

 ✅ One-time $225 charge for the first lifecycle execution

 ✅ 𝐍𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: $6,975 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫

This small adjustment created a big impact with zero change in user experience.

If your AWS bill keeps climbing, you might be paying for data that’s barely used.

📩 Follow and reach out to me or CodeNex to reduce your AWS storage costs and optimize your cloud spending.