EC2-Other Cost Breakdown

The "EC2-Other" category in AWS Cost Explorer is often a black box -- it contains various charges not directly tied to EC2 instance hours, making it hard to understand where money is going.

unusd.cloud provides an automated breakdown of your EC2-Other costs, drilling down into specific operations to explain exactly what you are paying for.

Implementation Effort: Varies - Each category has its own optimization path.

What We Detect

We analyze your EC2-Other spend and break it down into actionable categories:

• NAT Gateway -- Hourly charges and data processing fees
• EBS Storage -- Volume storage, provisioned IOPS, and throughput charges
• EBS Snapshots -- Snapshot storage and cross-region copy costs
• Data Transfer -- Inter-AZ, cross-region, and internet data transfer
• Elastic IPs -- Idle IP address charges
• VPC -- Interface Endpoint and public IPv4 address charges

Why It Matters

EC2-Other is frequently one of the largest line items in AWS bills, yet the least understood. Breaking it down into specific operations reveals the top cost drivers and where to focus optimization efforts.

Recommendations

1. High NAT Gateway costs -- Deploy free VPC Gateway Endpoints for S3 and DynamoDB
2. High EBS costs -- Migrate gp2 volumes to gp3
3. High Snapshot costs -- Implement snapshot lifecycle policies
4. High Data Transfer -- Optimize architecture for data locality

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