Platform · Networking
NAT, transfer, load balancers, IPv4, endpoints.
Networking waste is invisible until the bill arrives split across a hundred line items. CloudPivot traces it back to the resource and the fix.
Found money, config-only
Traffic that should be free, billed at NAT rates.
Same-region S3 traffic routed through a NAT gateway pays $0.045/GB that a free VPC endpoint would carry — caught from configuration alone, no learning period. Forgotten public IPv4 addresses at $3.65/month each and load balancers idle for a year land on the same priced cleanup list.
Know which service is driving the spend
A guided data-transfer drill-down attributes cross-AZ and NAT costs to a specific service — using Flow Logs only when needed, not left running forever.
Cross-AZ chatter, priced and fixable
The cross-AZ transfer analyzer flags load-balancer-to-service traffic that zonal affinity would make free.
A common fee trap
Same-region traffic shouldn't route through a NAT gateway.
A missing VPC gateway endpoint is a pure configuration fix — no metric history required, no usage pattern to learn first.
Find the endpoint you're missing.
The config-only networking scan runs against your existing setup — no traffic pattern learning period needed.