Optimizing AWS Backup Spend: How to Identify and Automate Savings Opportunities

AWS backup environments often grow faster than expected. Retention settings expand, snapshots accumulate, and storage usage increases across accounts and workloads. The challenge for many organizations isn’t whether savings opportunities exist, it’s knowing where to find them and how to act without adding manual overhead or operational risk.

In this focused session, Sabith Venkitachalapathy will share common customer challenges and practical considerations teams face when managing AWS backup spend at scale.

Joining him, Gil Rozen will demonstrate how automation can help identify optimization opportunities, streamline decision-making, and turn insights into continuous savings actions.

Together, they’ll explore a practical approach to improving backup cost efficiency while maintaining control, governance, and operational confidence.

Designed for FinOps leaders, cloud architects, and DevOps teams looking to move from visibility to action.What Attendees Will Learn

• Where AWS backup spend commonly grows unnoticed
• How to uncover safe savings opportunities
• Ways to reduce manual effort through automation
• How FinOps teams can operationalize backup optimization
• Best practices for balancing savings, compliance, and contro