AWS Cost Savings

Stop paying for idle RDS Instances

RDS instances are expensive to run idle. A forgotten dev database can cost hundreds per month. Driftak catches them before the bill does.

Typical monthly cost

$100–$1,000

Potential savings

30–80%

Common scenarios

  • ✓Dev/staging databases left running between sprints
  • ✓Single-AZ instances that could be stopped outside business hours
  • ✓Oversized db.r5.xlarge for a low-traffic app

How Driftak detects this

Driftak checks RDS connection counts, CPU utilization, and last activity. Idle databases are flagged with their instance class and estimated daily cost.

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