The Three Silent Cloud-Cost Patterns We Find in Every Series A-C SaaS Audit

I read cloud bills, architecture diagrams, and CloudWatch dashboards for a living. Across 23 Series A-C SaaS environments last quarter — fintech, devtools, vertical SaaS, AWS and GCP — the same three patterns showed up every time . None of them are exotic. None require a migration. They're just the specific line items that grow in the shadow of a product roadmap and nobody has the time to look at. Median finding across those 23 audits: $3,400 / month of addressable waste, with payback under 8 we