Cloud cost control, without cutting capability
Cloud bills grow by accretion, not by a single mistake. Nobody decided to spend more; a dozen small decisions just never got revisited.
Where the money usually goes
Instances sized for a load test that finished last year, development and staging environments running twenty-four hours a day, unattached storage volumes and old snapshots nobody deletes, no savings plan or reserved capacity on workloads that run every day anyway, and no single person whose job it is to notice any of this.
How an engagement works
We run a fixed-price audit against your actual usage using the provider's own cost and utilization data, not guesswork. You get a findings register with an estimated saving attached to each item, ranked by effort and impact. Implementation can be us, your existing team, or nobody at all.
We are not paid a commission by AWS or Azure
There is no incentive to recommend keeping spend high, and none to move you to a platform we get paid to sell. The recommendations are the same regardless of who implements them.
What's included
Specific deliverables, not a vague promise to "handle IT."
- A usage audit against real billing and utilization history, not a one-time snapshot
- Identification of idle and oversized resources sized for a load that no longer exists
- An orphaned-resource cleanup list: unattached volumes, old snapshots, idle load balancers, unused IPs
- A Reserved Instance / Savings Plan coverage analysis for workloads that run every day anyway
- A tagging and ownership recommendation so cost has a named owner going forward, not just a lower bill this month
- A savings estimate attached to every finding, ranked by effort and impact
- An optional ongoing monthly cost review once the initial cleanup is done
How this engagement works
Read-only access to billing and usage data
No production changes at this stage, just visibility.
Audit against the provider's own cost tools
Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer, Azure Advisor, or the equivalent, cross-checked rather than taken at face value.
Findings register with savings estimates
Ranked by effort and impact, priced as a fixed engagement regardless of what's found.
Implementation, optional
Us, your existing team, or nobody. The findings are yours either way.
Questions about cloud cost control
Do you need production access to do this?
Mostly read-only billing and usage access. Anything that touches a live resource is called out and sequenced separately, with your sign-off.
What if implementing a recommendation risks downtime?
Flagged explicitly in the findings register and sequenced for a maintenance window, not bundled in as if it were risk-free.
Is there a minimum cloud spend for this to be worth it?
Even modest bills usually have identifiable waste; the audit itself is fixed price regardless of what your current spend is.
Do you take a percentage of the savings?
No. Fixed price for the audit, regardless of how much or how little is found.
Other services
Start with an assessment, not a contract
A short scoping call, then a fixed-price review of your security, cloud and support setup. You keep the findings either way.