Turn off what you do not use: the money sleeping in your test environments
Your test environments work 168 hours a week. Your team works about 45. Someone is overpaying.
Dev, QA, and staging almost never need to be running at night, on weekends, or on holidays. But by default they run 24/7 and bill just the same. Shutting them down during dead hours is one of the cleanest savings there is: it never touches production, and nobody notices.
01 Do the math on hours
An environment left on all month is 730 hours. During real working hours it is about 200. You are paying triple for nothing.
~730 vs ~200 hours/month
02 Automatic shutdown
You schedule them to shut down at night and on weekends, and to start back up on their own in the morning. Nobody has to remember.
30–65% less in those environments
03 Orphaned resources
Environments from projects that already wrapped up but are still running. We identify them and decommission them.
04 On demand
For occasional testing, spin the environment up only when it is needed and tear it down when you are done.
// A typical case (illustrative)
Picture USD 3,000 a month in dev and QA environments. Shutting them down at night and on weekends brings the spend to around USD 1,200. Production is never touched and the team never notices. Illustrative numbers, real savings.
Illustrative example with typical market figures, not a specific client.
// next step
We review your non-production environments and set up the automatic shutdown. The savings start the first month.