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YesClaude Code · 18 Jul 2025

The first time I got it working 100%, we were able to easily save a few thousand $$ from our bill due to unused resources allocated long ago

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save a few thousand $$ from our bill

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… It took a few days to get it done, but the result is a very, very nice tool that gives us a complete breakdown of what each resource costs. The first time I got it working 100%, we were able to easily save a few thousand $$ from our bill due to unused resources allocated long ago. And, to be clear, I knew nothing about API calls to the cloud provider to get this data much less the complexities of creating a web page to display the data. …