AWS Cost Optimization
Our AWS bill keeps growing, and nobody owns it.
For CFO, CIO, head of IT finance or FinOps
AWS bills grow with every new workload, but tagging, budgets and commitments rarely keep up. We start with a fixed-fee review that baselines spend by account, service and team, finds idle and oversized resources, checks Savings Plans coverage and looks at Microsoft licensing options. Then we put cost allocation, budgets and anomaly alerts in place, and, if you want, review spend with you every month. We do not promise a savings figure; the review quantifies the opportunity from your own data.
How we work
What we do
Open a step to see what happens and what you receive.
Assess
Fixed fee.
- Spend baseline by account, service and team
- Rightsizing and idle resource review
- Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage
- Microsoft licensing options on AWS
You receive: a cost baseline, ranked savings opportunities and a 90-day savings plan.
Confirmed at scoping.
Build
Fixed scope with milestones.
- Tagging standard and cost allocation
- Budgets and anomaly detection
- Rightsizing and commitment purchases
- Load testing, scaling policies and performance tuning
You receive: a cost allocation model, an executive cost dashboard and a tuning report.
Confirmed at scoping.
Run
Optional. If you want us to, we can keep this going monthly for as long as you need it.
- Monthly rightsizing and commitment reviews
- Anomaly alerts
- Executive cost report
You receive: a monthly cost report and a quarterly optimization review.
Services included: Cost and Licensing Review, FinOps and Continuous Cost Optimization, Performance and Resilience Tuning.
Want to know what this would look like for you?About 30 minutes with a practitioner from the practice that does the work. You’ll leave with a clear view of your next step.
Book a 30-minute conversationOutcomes
What you can expect
- Every dollar of AWS spend tied to an ownerAssessment
- Waste removed and savings measuredImplementation
- Budgets finance can predictImplementation
Each outcome is labelled with the stage that delivers it. An assessment or advisory engagement on its own does not include the implementation work.
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Select the needs that apply. We’ll collect them here so you can review the fit.
DeliverablesDeliverables by phase (7)
Assess
- Cost baseline
- Ranked savings opportunities
- 90-day savings plan
Build
- Cost allocation model
- Executive cost dashboard
- Tuning report
Run (optional)
- Monthly cost report and quarterly optimization review (optional Run)
Good to know
Questions leaders ask
Do you need access to our billing?
Read access to billing and cost data, agreed with your team.
What is rightsizing?
Matching instance and storage sizes to what a workload actually uses.
Can you promise a savings figure?
No. The review quantifies the opportunity from your actual data.
We'll just buy more Savings Plans.
Commitments save money on steady usage, but buying them before rightsizing can lock in waste. The review sequences the two.
We already use AWS Cost Explorer.
It is a good tool, and we use it. The gap is usually ownership: tagging, allocation to teams and a regular review that acts on the findings. We work with your existing cost tools.
Why it matters nowThe numbers behind this
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- A reply from the practice that does the workThe practitioners who would deliver it.
- A short conversationWhat needs to happen, and by when.
- A written proposalWhat you would receive, how long it takes and the fee, before you commit.
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About 30 minutes with a practitioner from the practice that does the work, not a salesperson. It’s about your situation, and you’ll leave with a clear view of your next step. No cost, no obligation.
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