AWS

What is AWS?

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AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive cloud computing platform that provides infrastructure, storage, databases, networking, security, and application services to organizations of all sizes. It is widely adopted across enterprises for hosting applications, managing data, and running critical workloads.

As AWS usage grows, access spreads across DevOps, engineering, IT, security, and management teams. With access to AWS accounts comes control over cloud infrastructure, sensitive workloads, and critical resources—making it essential to manage under centralized access governance.

Where AWS cost management goes wrong without integration

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No clear visibility into service-level spend
Costs are spread across hundreds of services (EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.), making it difficult to understand what is driving spend. Amazon Web Services bills often become fragmented and hard to interpret.

Over-provisioned compute resources
Teams frequently run oversized or always-on instances that are not optimized for actual usage.

Idle or forgotten resources still costing money
Unused EC2 instances, storage volumes, and databases continue generating costs even when not actively used.

No cost allocation by team or project
Finance teams struggle to map AWS spend to specific departments, products, or environments.

Lack of lifecycle governance
Temporary environments (dev, staging, testing) are often never shut down, leading to continuous unnecessary spend.

Key cost optimization features with Corma

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Centralized AWS cost visibility
Corma provides a unified view of all AWS services, usage, and spend across accounts and teams.

Idle resource detection
Identify unused EC2 instances, storage volumes, and services that are still generating cost.

Usage-based optimization insights
Highlight underutilized compute and storage resources for rightsizing.

Cost allocation by team and project
Break down AWS spend across departments, environments, or applications.

Automated cleanup workflows
Trigger rules to shut down or flag unused resources based on activity thresholds or schedules.

Outcome

With Corma, AWS cost management becomes structured and transparent. Organizations reduce cloud waste, eliminate idle infrastructure, and ensure spend in Amazon Web Services directly aligns with real business usage.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Does AWS use licenses or subscriptions?

No. AWS uses a pay-as-you-go model, where you are billed based on actual resource consumption rather than fixed licenses.

What are the biggest cost drivers in AWS?

Compute (EC2), storage (S3), data transfer, and managed databases are typically the largest contributors.

Can Corma reduce AWS costs?

Yes. By identifying idle resources, over-provisioned infrastructure, and unused services, Corma helps significantly reduce cloud spend.

Can we see cost per team or project?

Yes. Corma provides cost allocation across teams, projects, and environments for full transparency.

Does AWS cost increase automatically with usage?

Yes. Since pricing is usage-based, costs scale directly with resource consumption unless actively optimized.

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