Most engineering teams treat the annual cloud architecture review as a formality: an afternoon with a spreadsheet, a few tag cleanups, and a pat on the back. Lucas and Luna argue that this checklist mindset is now the single biggest source of hidden cloud waste in 2026. They walk through a specific case: a mid-market SaaS company that ran a genuine zero-based architecture review, cut its monthly AWS bill by 38%, and eliminated two entire microservice categories that were generating more data-transfer fees than user value. They explain the three specific questions most teams skip, why the 'lift and shift' mindset persists four years after migration, and how one simple change — a weekly cost-per-request review by service — can prevent bill creep. The conversation stays tactical: no theory, just the audit your cloud team probably isn't doing.

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