Rick Wise

Building CloudWise: AI-powered AWS cost optimization. Former Software and DevOps Engineer helping startups cut cloud costs. Sharing lessons from analyzing $millions in AWS spending.

Joined on Oct 24, 2025

Rick Wise

Feb 26

How SageMaker Actually Bills: A Breakdown for Engineers

#aws #devops #machinelearning #tutorial

12 min read

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Rick Wise

Feb 19

How EC2 + EBS Actually Bills: A Breakdown for Engineers

#aws #cloud #devops #finops

3 min read

Rick Wise

Feb 17

How I Built an "Agentic" AWS Cost Optimizer (That Doesn't Break Production)

#aws #finops #python #devops

4 min read

Rick Wise

Feb 12

FinOps Implementation: A Roadmap for Cost Monitoring in 2026

#aws #architecture #devops #tutorial

4 min read

Rick Wise

Feb 5

EC2 Spot vs. Reserved: Which Saved Us $5,000 Last Quarter?

#aws #architecture #devops #tutorial

3 min read

Rick Wise

Jan 23

New Feature Alert: Waste and Anomaly Detection

#aws #cloud #devops #finops

3 min read

Rick Wise

Jan 16

From Manual Tagging to AI Detection

#aws #cloud #devops #costsaving

1 min read

Rick Wise

Jan 9

Orphaned EBS Volumes Costing You $$$?

#aws #cloud #devops #costsaving

1 min read

Rick Wise

Dec 9 '25

I Built an AI-Powered AWS Waste Detector (and Found $4,200 in My Own Account)

#aws #cloudcomputing #devops #buildinpublic

3 min read

Rick Wise

Nov 26 '25

The $847 Idle RDS Instance: A Deep Dive into AWS Cost Optimization

#aws #architecture #devops #tutorial

3 min read

Rick Wise

Nov 8 '25

How to Set Up AWS Cost Explorer (and Why It’s Not Enough)

#aws #finops #devops #cloud

2 min read

Rick Wise

Nov 6 '25

The 5 AWS Services That Secretly Drain Your Budget (and How to Stop Them)

5 min read

Rick Wise

Nov 5 '25

How I'm letting users shape my product roadmap (and why you should too)

#aws #cloudcostoptimization #buildinpublic

1 min read

Rick Wise

Nov 4 '25

AI copilot that explains AWS cost changes in plain English

#showdev #startup #ai #aws

1 min read

Rick Wise

Oct 31 '25

New Feature Alert: Cost Tracker

#aws #costoptimization #cloudwise #buildinpublic

1 min read

Rick Wise

Oct 29 '25

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection: When machine learning meets your billing

#aws #finops #costoptimization #startup

1 min read

Rick Wise

Oct 28 '25

Building CloudWise: Why AWS Cost Tools Failed Startups (And How We Fixed It)

#aws #finops #startup #buildinpublic

1 min read

Rick Wise

Oct 28 '25

CloudWise Free Forever: Why We Built AWS Cost

#aws #finops #costoptimization #startup

1 min read

Rick Wise

Oct 27 '25

Building a Cost Explorer Alternative: Architecture Decisions and Tradeoffs

#aws #cloudcostmanagement #cloudcomputing #awsbill

2 min read

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How SageMaker Actually Bills: A Breakdown for Engineers

Want to connect with Rick Wise?

How EC2 + EBS Actually Bills: A Breakdown for Engineers

How I Built an "Agentic" AWS Cost Optimizer (That Doesn't Break Production)

FinOps Implementation: A Roadmap for Cost Monitoring in 2026

EC2 Spot vs. Reserved: Which Saved Us $5,000 Last Quarter?

New Feature Alert: Waste and Anomaly Detection

From Manual Tagging to AI Detection

Orphaned EBS Volumes Costing You $$$?

I Built an AI-Powered AWS Waste Detector (and Found $4,200 in My Own Account)

The $847 Idle RDS Instance: A Deep Dive into AWS Cost Optimization

How to Set Up AWS Cost Explorer (and Why It’s Not Enough)

The 5 AWS Services That Secretly Drain Your Budget (and How to Stop Them)

How I'm letting users shape my product roadmap (and why you should too)

AI copilot that explains AWS cost changes in plain English

New Feature Alert: Cost Tracker

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection: When machine learning meets your billing

Building CloudWise: Why AWS Cost Tools Failed Startups (And How We Fixed It)

CloudWise Free Forever: Why We Built AWS Cost

Building a Cost Explorer Alternative: Architecture Decisions and Tradeoffs