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Cut AWS spend without creating new delivery risk.

We review the architecture behind your AWS bill, prioritize the changes with the highest financial impact, and give your team an implementation path that protects production while spend comes down.
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Free 30-minute intro call, no commitment. You get a fixed price before any paid work starts. Your team's time: a kickoff call and a walkthrough of the savings; we do the rest.

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Cost and usage graph
Total cost
$52,536.83
Average monthly cost
$4,378.07
Service count
27
  • Before optimization
  • After optimization
From a recent engagement: read the case study
From $495
The fixed-price review, the only cost you commit to
$0
For the fixes if your AWS bill does not drop
Monthly cost by service
Before the fixes and the new run rate
  • Nov 2024
  • Feb 2025
Average month before
$5,096
Mar '24 to Nov '24
Average month after
$1,716
Jan '25 to Feb '25
Average monthly decrease
−$3,380
66% less per month
Proof from a recent engagement

A recent cost optimization engagement, reduced to the numbers that mattered.

This B2B SaaS account, whose owner stays unnamed under NDA, had grown for years without a cleanup cycle. The fixes went in during December 2024, and by February 2025 every major service cost less, with uptime maintained throughout.

Lower average monthly bill
66%
Average month after the fixes, down from $5,096
$1,716
Uptime maintained
100%

What if there is nothing to cut? Rare. Even on well-managed accounts we typically find 15 to 30 percent of waste, and on the success-based model you only pay for the fixes when the bill actually drops.

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Cost ExplorerInfo

Nov 2024 · Monthly · Group by: Service

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Cost and usage breakdown (8)
ServiceNov 2024
Relational Database Service1
3 DB instances under 20% utilization
$1,628
EC2-Instances1
9 instances under 20% utilization
$1,479
EC2-Other2
900+ orphaned snapshots, gp2 volumes
$623
Support (Business)
$464
Elastic Load Balancing3
19 Classic Load Balancers
$460
VPC
$251
ElastiCache
$154
Others$51
Total costs$5,110
Where spend keeps leaking

Most AWS waste is a systems problem, not a billing problem.

The invoice is only the symptom. Cost Explorer tells you which service grew. The review traces each line back to the resources behind it and the architecture decision that keeps it expensive.

  1. Compute sized for a peak that never came
    EC2 instances and RDS databases rightsized to their measured utilization.
  2. Storage nobody cleans up
    Orphaned EBS snapshots removed, lifecycle policies added and gp2 volumes moved to gp3.
  3. Legacy load balancing
    One Classic Load Balancer per app consolidated into an Application Load Balancer with host-based routing.
What you get

Every saving comes with the resource, the fix and the risk.

Dashboards show where spend spiked. The review ranks each change by monthly savings, effort and production risk, names the resources it touches and gives your team the commands and AWS documentation to make it.

Engineers, not accountants
A senior AWS engineer who changes infrastructure without breaking production.
Ordered for production
Quick wins ship first, and structural changes come with a rollout order that respects dependencies.
After the report

Then we fix it, as pull requests to your repo.

The report tells you which savings to fix first. Your team can work through them, or we ship the fixes: infrastructure as code in your own repository, reviewed and merged like any other change.

  • Our fee for the fixes is a share of the verified savings
  • Every change lands as a pull request your team reviews
  • The code stays in your repository, so nothing is locked in
Ask about fixes on the intro call
No savings, no fee

We only earn on the fixes when your bill goes down.

The fixed-price assessment is the only cost you commit to. After it, we can implement the savings on a success basis: our fee is a share of the savings we verify on your AWS bill. If the bill does not drop, you do not pay for the work, which is why we only take on changes we expect to pay off.

  • The assessment is the only fixed cost.
  • Our fee for the fixes is a share of the verified savings.
  • No lower bill, no fee for the work.
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Cost review roadmap

The cost optimization roadmap

The goal is to move from bill anxiety to a sequence of changes your team can actually ship. We map the spend, explain the trade-offs, and leave you with a plan that can survive engineering scrutiny.

  1. Kickoff

    Context and read-only access

    We start with the business context behind the bill, then you grant a read-only IAM role so the review starts from your real account.

    • Access confirmed
    • Known spend concerns mapped
  2. Analysis

    Resource and dependency mapping

    We trace the largest cost drivers to the resources behind them, and to the environments and dependencies a change has to respect.

    • Infrastructure inventory
    • Spend concentration map
    • Risky dependencies flagged
  3. Walkthrough

    Prioritized savings roadmap

    You get a report that ranks every change by savings, effort and risk, with the commands to make it, and we walk your team through it live.

    • Cost analysis report
    • Savings roadmap
    • Commitment strategy
Cost optimization reviews start from
$495

We trace your bill back to the resources behind it and walk your team through the savings, ranked by dollars a month and production risk. The quick wins alone often pay for the review. Make the changes yourselves, or have us make them for a share of the savings. Bigger bills take longer to trace, so $495 is where it starts.

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Cost optimization FAQ

What teams ask
before touching the bill

What is included in the AWS Cost Optimization Report?
Our comprehensive report provides a detailed breakdown of every cost optimization opportunity:
  • Finding Details: A clear explanation of the inefficiency (e.g., idle resources, oversized instances) and the potential cost savings.
  • Affected Resources: A specific list of resources (e.g., EC2 Instance IDs, EBS Volumes) that are incurring unnecessary costs.
  • Recommendation & Source: Step-by-step remediation instructions, including CLI commands and links to official AWS documentation for further reading.
This structured approach ensures you have a complete overview of each opportunity and the exact steps needed to realize the savings.
What does the AWS Cost Optimization review cost?

Cost Optimization reviews start from $495. The final fixed price depends on the size of your AWS environment, the number of accounts, and the depth of implementation guidance you need. We confirm the scope and the price during the free intro call before any paid work starts. No commitment required. See how assessment pricing works.

What makes this different from AWS's built-in cost tools, and what size environments do you support?
AWS tools surface spend, but they stop short of engineering guidance. We pair cost analytics with hands-on CDK and infrastructure expertise to recommend safe changes. In a recent engagement we took a B2B SaaS account from an average of $5,096 a month to $1,716, 66% lower, with uptime maintained. The review scales with the account, so a larger estate simply takes longer to trace.
How much access do you need, and how do you keep our account secure?
We start with a temporary read-only IAM role to analyze usage. If we implement fixes, permissions are scoped to the targeted resources, time-bound, and fully logged. You can revoke access at any time.
Will optimization impact performance, and do we have to apply everything at once?
Performance comes first. Every recommendation includes impact analysis and rollout guidance. We deliver a prioritized roadmap so you can tackle quick wins immediately and phase in larger changes when it suits your schedule.
What if we already bought Reserved Instances or Savings Plans, and how fast will we see savings?
Most clients with commitments still unlock 15 to 20% extra savings by right-sizing coverage. Many actions, like removing idle resources or resizing instances, show up on the very next bill, while portfolio tuning typically pays back within 1 to 3 months.
Can we pay based on savings, and can you manage costs long term?
Yes. After the fixed-price assessment, we can implement the savings on a success basis: our fee is a share of the savings we verify on your AWS bill, so if the bill does not drop, you do not pay for the work. After the initial project, we offer subscription FinOps support with recurring reviews, anomaly detection, and new optimization opportunities.
Why can't our DevOps team handle cost optimization themselves?

They can. The question is whether it stays a priority. Cost work competes with the product roadmap, and the patterns that move the needle (right-sizing, commitment laddering, idle detection at scale, networking and data-transfer audits) take a few weeks to build muscle in. We deliver the cleanup once, hand over the playbook your team can re-run quarterly, and most clients see savings the same month rather than waiting six months for an internal project to land.

What if you find nothing significant to optimize?

Rare, but it happens. Even on well-managed accounts we typically find 15 to 30 percent of waste in idle resources, oversized instances, unused EBS snapshots, NAT Gateway traffic, or commitment coverage gaps. On the success-based engagement model you only pay when verified savings show up, so the downside risk sits with us. On the fixed-price assessment you still walk away with a documented baseline and a FinOps process your team can run going forward.

How is this different from FinOps tools like Vantage, CloudHealth, or Datadog?

FinOps tools surface data. They tell you what your accounts look like. They do not decide what is safe to change, write the CDK or Terraform to change it, or sequence the rollout so production keeps working. Our review uses the same data sources, then adds the engineering layer: a prioritized fix list, infrastructure code where it helps, and a remediation order that respects your dependencies. Tools and reviews are complementary, not substitutes.

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We'll look at the shape of your bill and the infrastructure behind it, and tell you whether a cost review will pay for itself. If it won't, we'll say so.

You talk to Danny Steenman, the engineer who does the work. Pick a time below and he confirms it by email.

  • Free 30-minute call, no commitment
  • Fixed price before any paid work
  • Read-only account access