What helped when we first got started is more quickly terminate test/development environments. We'd often launch a full environment to test out a theory or do a

What helped when we first got started is more quickly terminate test/development environments. We'd often launch a full environment to test out a theory or do a POC without touching the regular development, staging and production environments. It would often happen that those environments would run a little longer than supposed to. We've put automated systems in place that detect inactivity and notify us. This only helped cut our bill before we launched and started spending more and more money on our production environment when these kind of things still made up a significant amount of our a bill.