AWS cost audit for Indian SaaS: a 24-hour methodology

Every Indian mid-market company with a monthly AWS bill above ₹5 lakh has the same conversation with itself once a quarter. Engineering says the bill is "probably fine". Finance says it feels high but can't prove it. A founder asks "what would a real audit find?" — and usually, nobody answers, because nobody has done one. We have. Across a dozen pattern studies in ap-south-1 over the last year, the same seven leaks show up in almost every account. Not all seven every time — but rarely fewer than