Cost visibility
Accounts, services, regions, environments, tags, commitments, and unallocated spend.
Fixed-scope AWS Cost Optimization Audit
Find the AWS waste worth fixing—and leave with a plan.
In 3–7 business days, get technically verified savings opportunities, the evidence behind them, and a 30/60/90-day implementation roadmap your engineers can use.
Free fit call · Fixed-scope proposal · Read-only discovery
The audit at a glance
One decision-ready package, not a recommendation dump.
3–7 business day assessment
Read-only billing and utilization review
Prioritized savings register
30/60/90-day implementation roadmap
3–7 days
typical delivery after access is ready
6 areas
reviewed across cost, compute, data, network, EKS, and guardrails
30/60/90
day implementation sequence included
What we inspect
The cost drivers behind the bill.
The review follows spend from the bill into the infrastructure and application decisions creating it.
EC2 and compute
Idle capacity, rightsizing, schedules, autoscaling, Graviton fit, and Spot opportunities.
RDS, EBS, and S3
Database sizing, storage types, IOPS, snapshots, retention, and lifecycle policies.
Network and architecture
NAT Gateways, data transfer, load balancers, cross-zone traffic, and avoidable movement.
EKS and containers
Pod requests, node utilisation, autoscaling behaviour, and workload efficiency.
Cost guardrails
Budgets, anomaly alerts, ownership, Infrastructure as Code controls, and review cadence.
When this audit is useful
Built for a real cost decision.
The audit works best when leadership needs a defensible view of savings and engineering needs a sequence that protects reliability.
AWS spend is rising faster than product or customer growth
Engineering sees recommendations but lacks time to validate risk
Multiple accounts, teams, tags, or commitments obscure ownership
A finance or leadership decision needs defensible savings evidence
What you receive
A plan your engineers can actually execute.
Each finding includes the evidence behind it and the production constraint that must be protected.
Cost baseline mapped to accounts, workloads, environments, and owners
Prioritised savings register with expected value, effort, and operational risk
EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, EKS, and network findings relevant to your environment
30/60/90-day implementation roadmap with quick wins clearly separated
Commitment coverage review after waste and rightsizing opportunities
Budget, anomaly, tagging, and ownership guardrails to prevent cost regression
How the engagement works
Savings without reckless changes.
01
Confirm fit and scope
A short founder-led call confirms the accounts, cost pressure, engineering constraints, and the decision the audit needs to support.
02
Open read-only discovery
We agree the minimum billing, utilization, configuration, and architecture context needed. The audit does not require write access.
03
Verify the opportunities
Recommendations are checked against utilisation, performance, reliability, and ownership—not accepted blindly.
04
Deliver the decision pack
Your team receives the savings register, 30/60/90-day roadmap, implementation sequence, and an executive readout.
Access and change control
Evidence in. No surprise changes out.
This is an audit, not an unapproved production optimization sprint.
Read-only by default
Billing, utilization, and configuration evidence are reviewed without changing production resources.
Minimum necessary access
The access plan is agreed before discovery and scoped to the accounts and services included in the audit.
Your team keeps control
No recommendation is implemented during the audit. Changes require a separate approval and rollout plan.
Selected engagement outcome
42% lower AWS spend and 3× faster releases for a growing fintech platform.
See the cost, infrastructure, and delivery changes behind the result in the full anonymized engagement story.
Questions before access
AWS cost review FAQs.
The initial fit call is free. If the audit is a good fit, we provide a fixed-scope proposal based on the accounts, services, and decision your team needs to make.
Put a defensible savings plan in front of your team.
Start with a free fit call. If the audit is right for your environment, you receive a fixed-scope proposal before any access is requested.
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