Lower your cloud bill by fixing the architecture
A line-by-line review of your cloud bill, followed by the engineering changes that cut waste without hurting reliability or slowing your team.
Overview
Cloud bills grow quietly. Test environments run all weekend, databases are sized for a launch that happened two years ago, and data transfer charges hide inside services nobody owns. Dashboards from the provider show the totals but rarely say what to change.
We read your bill and your architecture together, rank the savings by effort and risk, then make the changes in your own accounts with your engineers. Commitments such as Savings Plans or reservations come last, once the waste is gone, so you do not lock in spend you were about to remove.
Signs you need this
- Nobody can explain the three biggest lines on last month's bill
- Non-production environments run around the clock
- Data transfer or NAT gateway charges are a noticeable share of the bill
- You bought reservations or Savings Plans without first rightsizing
What you get
- Bill breakdown
- Your spend split by service, environment and team, using the provider's cost and usage reports rather than estimates.
- Ranked savings list
- Every saving we find, with the effort, risk and owner for each, so you decide what to do first.
- Implemented changes
- Rightsizing, storage tiering, scheduling, network path fixes and architecture changes made through your normal change process.
- Commitment plan
- Savings Plans, reservations or committed use discounts sized to your remaining steady usage after the cleanup.
- Cost guardrails
- Budgets, anomaly alerts and policy checks so the same waste does not creep back.
How the work runs
- 1
Bill and architecture review
1 to 2 weeks
Enable detailed cost reports if missing, map spend to workloads and walk through the architecture with your team.
- 2
Quick wins
1 to 2 weeks
Remove idle resources, schedule non-production, fix storage classes and clean up old snapshots.
- 3
Structural changes
3 to 6 weeks
Rightsize compute and databases, move suitable workloads to Graviton or spot, and fix expensive network paths.
- 4
Commitments and guardrails
1 to 2 weeks
Buy commitments for the steady base, set budgets and anomaly alerts, and hand over a monthly review routine.
Timings depend on the size of your estate. The assessment fixes them before any build starts.
What you can check afterwards
- A monthly bill you can compare line by line against the baseline we recorded at the start
- Every remaining cost line mapped to a workload and an owner
- Non-production environments that shut down outside working hours on their own
- Budget and anomaly alerts that reach the right team when spend jumps
Tools we work with
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Cost and Usage Report
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- Azure Cost Management
- Google Cloud Billing export
- Amazon Athena
- AWS Graviton
- Savings Plans
- Terraform
- Infracost
From our work
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Questions buyers ask
- Will cost cuts make our systems less reliable?
- We rank every change by risk and do not touch redundancy you need. Rightsizing changes go through your normal deployment process and are watched afterwards, with a simple rollback.
- What access do you need?
- Read access to billing and resource configuration to start. For implementation, a role in your own accounts or pull requests against your infrastructure code, whichever you prefer.
- Can you guarantee a saving?
- No. Until we have seen your bill we cannot know what is there. The first review shows the savings we can find before you commit to the implementation work.
- What happens after the project?
- You keep the reports, guardrails and a monthly review checklist. Some clients ask us back each quarter to look for new waste.
Talk to us about cloud cost reduction.
Tell us what you run and where. We reply within one business day with questions or a quote.