What's new in CloudFix - September 2026

Five new savings checks are generally available this month, covering dedicated hosts, managed Redis-compatible caching, Redshift Serverless, and email spend. Here’s what landed.

Dedicated hosts stop being a silent cost#

Two new checks tackle EC2 dedicated hosts from both ends. The first finds dedicated hosts with no running instances on them: you’re paying for the host whether anything runs on it or not. The second finds hosts that can be consolidated, so the same workloads run on fewer hosts. If you’ve ever kept a dedicated host around after a licensing or compliance project finished, these will find it.

Better deals on caching and data warehousing#

MemoryDB clusters can now be checked for migration to Valkey, the open-source engine compatible with Redis: the deployments cost less for the same workload. On the warehouse side, a new check identifies Redshift Serverless workloads that would save money with a capacity commitment, where paying ahead for steady usage beats on-demand per-use pricing.

Email spend, and faster results across the board#

A new check for Simple Email Service (SES) looks at whether your current spend would be cheaper on a different SES pricing plan: the kind of thing that’s easy to get right and just as easy to never look at again. Behind the scenes, savings scans are now more efficient and no longer stall when an account lacks permissions for a particular check. Large accounts in particular will see recommendations arrive faster.

Those are on top of the also recently released…

- WorkSpaces Delete Idle identifies Amazon WorkSpaces that have gone unused and can be terminated. 

- DocumentDB Delete Idle Clusters and MemoryDB Delete Idle Clusters do the same for clusters that have sat idle, eliminating instance- and node-hour cost respectively. 

- CloudTrail Optimize Retention moves eligible trails onto the one-year extendable retention pricing model. 

Everything above is live now with no configuration needed. Log in, and the new checks run as part of your next scan.

See what they find in your accounts: https://app.cloudfix.com